RUSSIA · 1923

Glumov's Diary

Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Poetic Cinema Russian avant-garde cinema theatrical adaptation anti-hero protagonist slapstick comedy Soviet experimental theater
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Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little fil

Year1923
CountryRussia
DirectorSergei Eisenstein
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