Eisenstein-Raritäten

Dnevnik Glumova (Glumov's Diary)
Sergei Eisenstein, USSR 1923, DCP (from 35mm), b&w, 7 min
Bezhin lug (The Beshin Meadow) [commentary + fragment]
Sergei Eisenstein, USSR 1935–37; Screenplay: Eisenstein, Isaak Babel, Aleksandr Rzheshevsky after Ivan Turgenev; Camera: Ėduard Tissė; Music: Sergei Prokofiev, 35mm, b&w, 5 min + 26 min, Russian with French subtitles
[Eisenstein's call to fight fascism]
SU 1941, 25mm, b&w, 1 min. English
Time in the Sun
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov; Editing: Marie Seton, Paul Burford, US/MX 1932/39, 35mm, b&w, 59 min. English

The absurd short comedy Dnevnik Glumova was created as part of a theatre performance: Eisenstein's film debut was long considered lost. Eisenstein's major feature film Bezhin Lug, about the peasant boy martyr Pavlik Morozov, was discontinued as politically undesirable. Sergei Yutkevich and Naum Kleiman reconstructed a fragment from surviving individual frames, which we are showing with an introductory commentary: the bold compositions are astonishing. After a short anti-fascist message, Time in the Sun is an independent re-editing of the material for ¡Que viva México!, for which Eisenstein's later biographer Marie Seton was responsible. (C.H.)