Country: Soviet
Union
Director: Sergei
M. Eisenstein
Stars: Grigori
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov and Sergei M. Eisenstein
Also known as:
Дневник Глумова (Soviet Union - Russian title); El diario de Glúmov (Spain);
Glumov's Diary (undefined); Kinodnevik Glumova (Soviet Union - informal
alternative title - Russian title); Le journal de Gloumov (France); O Diário de
Gloumov (Portugal)
Production Co:
Proletkult
Runtime: Russia:
5 min
Sound Mix:
Silent
Color: Black and
White
Genres: Short
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 film.
Trivia
Long assumed to
be lost, this little debut film by Eisenstein (a year or two before
"Strike") was re-discovered decades later, contained in a short
newsreel compiled in 1923 by Dziga Vertov ("Spring Smiles of
Proletkult").
The first film
directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein.
