Clownery

Klounada) is a black-and-white and colour 1989 Soviet independent film directed by Dmitrii Frolov.

Various works of Daniil Kharms are connected 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 and unceremoniousness.

In the film the works of Harms are screened: "Noise", "Victory of Myshin", "Grigoriev and Semyonov", etc.

A shot from the movie "Clownery", directed by Dmitry Frolov
Poster creative meeting with Dmitry Frolov and show the film "Clownery" in April 1991