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Daniil Kharms

Daniil Kharms

Writing

Biography

Daniil Ivanovich Kharms was an early Soviet-era Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.

Known For

Gogol online: Kharms. Myr
7.0

A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.

Gogol online: Kharms. Myr

2020
Wonders
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An animated film for children about how a Clown and the guys argued about who is the bigger inventor and entertainer.

Wonders

1980
Plyukh and Plikh
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Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

Plyukh and Plikh

1984
Hag-Kharms
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An old woman invades the home of a lonely writer and dies. Soon she becomes his obsession, which is impossible to get rid of.

Hag-Kharms

1991
An Old Joke
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The film delves into the remarkable artistic legacy of Leo Tolstoy.

An Old Joke

1996
Charm's Incidents
7.0

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.

Charm's Incidents

1996
Major's Nose
8.0

A cartoon based on the novella by N. V. Gogol "The Nose" and the works of V. Khlebnikov and D. Kharms.

Major's Nose

1997
Concert For A Rat
6.8

The rat lives in a cage that stands in the room of a large communal apartment in which the poet lives. The apartment is in the house; House - in the yard-well; The courtyard is in the city; And in the courtyard - 1939 ...In the film there are many newsreel frames of those times, the sound series contains both popular and propagandist songs, both Soviet and German. The plot is divided into many unrelated episodes, which are colorized in different colors. The author claims that everything shown should be understood outside of symbolism: everything in the film means only itself.

Concert For A Rat

1995
Clownery
5.4

The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of creativity Harms, the director plays the style of filming, acting at that time and enters into the picture, "the aged" sound. Thus, it is possible to achieve maximum reliability of the author's text and sound to help the viewer to immerse themselves in the atmosphere in which he lived and worked classic absurdity. This is - a world of illusions, allusions and associations, reflecting a stream of consciousness of the creator living in an era of silence.

Clownery

1989
The Package
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About what Minka and Lelya saw during their walk, trying to sell the galoshes that belonged to the guests of their parents to the rag picker.

The Package

1990
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6.6

As a man waits to fall to his death, overzealous morticians stand in the way of help.

The Fall

1999
Who's There?
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One evening, Mom, Dad, and a maid named Natasha were sitting at a table drinking.

Who's There?

1990
The Surprised Watchman
N/A

At the border between the earthly and the otherworldly sits an old watchman, observing a fly. His thoughts are interrupted by a strange young man who asks, “How do I get to heaven?” What follows is an absurd, at times comical and unsettling dialogue filled with mistrust and irony. The watchman, bound by routine, faces something beyond logic. The young man, without a ticket but full of conviction, insists heaven awaits him. In the quiet, mysterious ending, the young man vanishes, leaving only a white feather — and a question: what was that? A short animated parable about boundaries, misunderstanding, and the mystery of crossing worlds, with absurdist humor in the spirit of Kharms or Kafka.

The Surprised Watchman

2025
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8.0

The puppet film Mashkin Killed Koshkin, based on the short story of the same name by Daniil Kharms, is a small, absurd story of two heroes who personify the essence of the so-called "Russian soul".

Mashkin kills Koshkin

1999
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4.5

The main action in this film is the pair of people falling gently from the sky. We never see their final impact, or even how they come to be falling in the first place, but we are privy to the reactions, or lack there of, from all the by-standers below.

Fallen

2004
Recess IV
N/A

The cartoon consists of several mini-cartoons: "Liar" based on a poem by D. Kharms, about a boy who fantasized a lot and passed everything off as the truth, but no one believed him. "The Key" is based on a poem by O. Grigoriev, about an old grandmother who left a key at home, but her granddaughter did not open the door for her. "The Ball" is about a boy who dreamed of becoming a football player and therefore could not part with the ball.

Recess IV

1985
Samovar Ivan Ivanovich
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The pot-bellied bucket samovar Ivan Ivanovich gathers the whole large family for a tea party. And only a small cup of tea is not enough for a lazy couch potato.

Samovar Ivan Ivanovich

1987
No image
N/A

Almost everyone knows Daniil Kharms now. It is known that he composed this pseudonym for himself, as he composed his paradoxical poems, stories, plays and especially cases - that's what he called miniatures, the humor of which was obvious, but the meaning did not reach everyone. The life of the fictional Kharms was amazing, mocking and bravely independent. Daniil Yuvachev's life has become a true tragedy.

Play for a Man

2009
Hindrance
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Based on the short story of the same name by D. Kharms. Shot in the silent film genre, in the style of films from the 1920s.

Hindrance

1991
Petrichor
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A man spat into a cup of water and it turned black

Petrichor

2023