N. FILIPPOV
Н. ФИЛИППОВ
N. FILIPPOV
Russia, 1908, 80m 
Black and white, silent, fiction
The Diligent Batman
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Directed by : N. FILIPPOV (Н. ФИЛИППОВ)
Writing credits : N. FILIPPOV (Н. ФИЛИППОВ)
 
Cast
N. FILIPPOV (Н. ФИЛИППОВ) ...batman
V. GARLIN (В. ГАРЛИН) ...general
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr DRANKOV (Александр ДРАНКОВ)
Produced by : Aleksandr DRANKOV (Александр ДРАНКОВ)
Production : A. Drankov
Release date in Russia : 01/12/1908
 

Plot synopsis
The first Russian film comedy, staged and performed by artists of St. Petersburg theaters. The old general, courting his cook, in order to have an extra excuse to be nice to her, brings sheets of sticky paper from flies into the kitchen. Diligently fulfilling the master's order, the maid puts them everywhere and even on chairs. The batman who came to replace the general, in the heat of a love explanation, sits down on a chair, and his ridiculous struggle with the ill-fated paper begins ...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1995