Glumov's Diary (1923)

5.6Not Rated5 minDirector: Sergei Eisenstein

1923 film

Glumov's Diary (Russian: Дневник Глумова, romanized: Dnevnik Glumova) is a 1923 Soviet silent trick film, which was the first film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It was conceived as a part of the theatre production of Alexander Ostrovsky’s 1868 comedy Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Na vsyakovo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) and it marks Eisenstein's transition from theatre stage director to film director.

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Glumov's Diary (1923) — 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. Severa
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