Clownery (film)

Clownery (КлоунАда)
Russian DVD Disc cover
Directed by	Dmitrii Frolov
Screenplay by	Dmitrii Frolov
Based on	Situations by Daniil Kharms
Starring	Dmitrii Frolov Dmitri Shibanov Natalya Surkova Mark Nahamkin
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography	Dmitrii Frolov
Edited by	Dmitrii Frolov
Production company	NEO-film
Release date	27 September 1989 (1989-09-27)
Running time	53 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Clownery (Russian: КлоунАда, translit. Klounada) is a black-and-white and colour 1989 Soviet idependent film directed by Dmitrii Frolov. It is based on Daniil Kharms novel Situations.

Plot

Tragicomedy of the absurd, based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate the realities of the 30s, during which flourished creativity Kharms, the director reproduces the manner of filming, the acting of that time and introduces the "old" sound into the picture. Thus, he manages to achieve the maximum reliability of the sound of the author's text and help the viewer to immerse himself in the atmosphere in which he lived and created the classic of the absurd. It is a world of illusions, allusions and associations, reflecting the flow of consciousness of the creator living in the era of silence. Various works of Daniil Kharms are filigreely connected in a single whole by means of a character dressed in a sailor's pea coat, which roams from the "case" to the "occasion", getting into various stories and leaving unscathed from the most incredible situations. The character is a nice embodiment of the revolutionary sailor in reserve, what was filled with Russian society in the early 30-ies. He is quite a good-natured "lumpen", not devoid of features of his class: impudence, self-will, impudence and unceremoniousness. In the film the works of Harms are screened: "Noise", "Victory of Myshin", "Grigoriev and Semyonov", etc.

Cast

Dmitrii Frolov as Daniil Kharms
Dmitri Shibanov as Myshin
Natalya Surkova as Marya Ivanovna
Mark Nahamkin as Pushkin

Natalya Surkova in the film "Clownery"
Dmitri Shibanov in the film "Clownery"
Dmitrii Frolov in the film "Clownery"
Alexey Zaharov in the film "Clownery"
Mark Nahamkin in the film "Clownery"
Yakov Shmayev and Yevgeniy Suhonenkov in the film "Clownery"
Alexandr Kostin in the film "Clownery"
Yevgeniy Suhonenkov in the film "Clownery"

Details

The intimate scene in "Clownery" was one of the first in the domestic cinema (a little earlier the sensational film "Little Faith" was filmed). In September 1989, when the first screening of "Clownery" for friends took place, this moment produced the effect of a bomb exploding.
The film was looking for a long way to the viewer, and was officially released in February 2005. Counting from September 1989, the picture material was waiting for this hour for about 16 years. For as many years they waited on the mezzanines of the publication of Kharms's manuscript after his death in 1942, while Yakov Druskin did not start publishing them.
The premiere of the film was held at the 11th Russian Film Festival "Literature and Cinema" on February 26, 2005, on the eve of the director's birthday.

Festivals

XI Russian Film Festival "Literature and Cinema", Gatchina, February-March 2005;
IX International Festival of Arts "Sergey Oskolkov and his friends", St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Oranienbaum, June 2005;
International St. Petersburg "HARMS-Festival-5", St. Petersburg, Russia, June-July 2005;
Vll International Biennale "DIALOGI", CEH Manege, St. Petersburg, August 2005;
Club "SINEFANT", Moscow, August 17, 2005;
8th International Festival of Independent Cinema "Clear Dreams", St. Petersburg, November 2005;
X International Art Festival "Sergey Oskolkov and his friends", St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Oranienbaum, June 2006;
"ARTKONCEPT 2006" - 3rd International Festival of Tendentious Art, St. Petersburg, August 2006;
INTERZONE, St. Petersburg, July 2008

A shot from the movie "Clownery", directed by Dmitry Frolov

Awards

Special prize "Through the thorns to the stars" for a new language in the cinema (International Festival of Independent Cinema "Clean Dreams - VIII", November 2005)

References

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