Glumov's Diary
About Glumov's Diary
The short was made to run inside Sergei Eisenstein's staging of Alexander Ostrovsky's Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man at the Proletkult Theatre in Moscow. Glumov tries not to be found out, between acrobatics and clowning. Grigori Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, and Ivan Pyryev are among the players. Eisenstein appears.
Cast & crew
More about Glumov's Diary
Eisenstein's first film. He wrote, directed, and cut it. Aleksandr Khanzhonkov is listed as producer. It runs 5 minutes. The Russian title is Дневник Глумова. The play dates from 1868.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- It was an insert in a stage show, not a film sent out on its own.
- Aleksandr Antonov and Vera Yanukova are billed.
- Mikhail Gomorov is on the cast list.
- The theatre credit is Proletkult.
Scenes
- The company clowns through the insert while Glumov tries to stay hidden.
Influenced by
- Alexander Ostrovsky's Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (1868)
