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.

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Cast

Grigori Aleksandrov

Glumov 2

Aleksandr Antonov

Joffre

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Maksim Shtraukh

Milyukov-Mamaev

Vera Yanukova

Mamaeva

Ivan Pyryev

Fascist Clown