

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.

Grigori Aleksandrov
Glumov 2

Aleksandr Antonov
Joffre

Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan Yazykanov
Glumov 1

Maksim Shtraukh
Milyukov-Mamaev

Vera Yanukova
Mamaeva
Mikhail Gomorov
Turusina
Very Muzykant
Mashenka

Ivan Pyryev
Fascist Clown
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
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