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Ivan Pyryev
Director 1901 - 1968

Ivan Pyryev

Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (17 November 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm... Read full bio →

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Dnevnik Glumova

Dnevnik Glumova

Sergei Eisenstein 1923 5m

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.

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