The Iron Heel (1919)

Original title

Железная пята

Directed by

Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Vladimir Gardin, Leonid Leonidov

Genre

drama film, silent film, dystopian film

Country

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

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How it feels

A silent film based on Jack London's novel. It shows a future where capitalist oligarchs violently crush a socialist uprising in the United States. The story reflects the political struggles in Russia after the October Revolution.

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What happens

The Iron Heel (Russian: Железная пята, romanized: Zheleznaya pyata) is a 1919 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin. It is based on Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel. The main theme of London's book was the rise of a mass Socialist movement in the United States, with the potential to take power and implement a radical Socialist program, and its suppression by a well-organized coup of conservative Oligarchs. This had direct relevance to the situation in Russia at the time when the film was made, when the Russian Civil War was still raging and the newly created Soviet regime, born of the October Revolution, was still threatened by the counter-revolutionary White armies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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