Trying to find an Eastern European movie

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Zaij

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I'm trying to find a movie I vaguely remember from my childhood. It was most likely an Eastern European movie and the bits I can remember are a bunch of factory workers go on strike, they prepare heaps of nuts and bolts and the army comes in to restore order. Over the course they use fire extinguishers on tanks to blind them.

There's a scene where the workers are trying to figure out what to do, they break out lunch and they pass a sandwhich to the tank drivers through a hatch.

Later on they're running from the army, and some guy looks at a helmet and realises it's filled with blood and that the army has been shooting.

A bit obscure, but I hope you guys can help.

Thanks,
Zaij.
 
I could film all of this for you. Outside of my work is Eastern Europe! Lots of crumbling portions of a building, bricks everywhere, graffiti on the walls, homeless animals walking about.

but enough bad jokes. You realize there are more soviet movies regaurding factories than one could count?! I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Ziemia obiecana from the mid 70's.

Could you tell via the grain on the film what decade it was from? I know its not a talent most pride themselves on but its one I've developed over the years to a fine art. Usually you can tell by the lighting and color saturation as well as the grain on what decade the film is from.
 
Maph, "Ziemia Obiecana" is not a Soviet film. It's a Polish movie by Andrzej Wajda, and the only scene depicting revolutionary upheaval on a large scale is the end sequence.

I don't recall any tanks or fire extinguishers... as it's set in the late 19th century.
 
There was only a snippet of the film (around ~15 mins) as my dad had taped over it, but it would've been around late 80s early 90s I believe. Foreign movies usually get played pretty early after release on SBS.

Seen Ziemia Obiecona, that wasn't it. It wasn't Polish.
 
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