The Death Ray story
In an unspecified capitalist country, a Soviet engineer Podobed who invents a death ray that is stoled by the government with a view toward using it to suppress labor strikes.
10 total · 9 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| capitalism | major | Ruller's sole heir was a monocle sporting, top hat wearing, cigar chomping capitalist running the factory |
| communism | major | fascist government equipped with death ray opposed by communist worker movement |
| death ray | major | Podobed invents a death ray that is stolen and used to suppressing labor strikes |
| fascism | major | fascists stole a death ray and used it to suppress a worker revolt |
| labor revolt | major | Dame Edit led a worker revolt that was suppressed with death ray |
| revolution in society | major | the fascists had a full blow worker revolution on their hands by the conclusion of the film |
| social oppression | major | Workers were exploited in a factory. Fascist factory owners ordered a bombing raid on worker settlement that would have killed the workers had they not used a death ray to stop the bombs. |
| worker exploitation | major | workers were exploited in a factory; fascist factory owners ordered a bombing raid on worker settlement that would have killed them had they not used a death ray to stop the bombs |
| workers' rights | major | workers arrested and their committee building ransacked |
| scientist occupation | minor | Podobed conducted elaborate experiments in his lab in the inventing of the death ray. |