



Members of one of the theatre groups are rehearsing a scene from a play, the face of one of the actors.
Director Tairov A. Ya. is monitoring the rehearsal.
An actor is reading a tragic monologue.
The face of one of the actors.
A Red Army soldier, a member of the theatre group, sits in front of a mirror and begins to put on make-up, puts on a wig, the actor's face in make-up.
Red Army soldiers are going to a club to see a play by the theatre group.
Actors backstage before the start of the play.
Final preparations for the play, setting up a microphone backstage.
Made beds in the Red Army barracks, a rifle pyramid, an orderly is sitting by the telephone, listening to the play on a loudspeaker.
Musicians of the military orchestra are playing the overture to the play on the piano and violin.
A Red Army soldier raises the curtain.
Actors are performing the play "Woe from Wit", faces of Red Army spectators in the club hall.
Faces of actors and spectators, a scene from the play, spectators applauding.
One of the actors takes off his wig and theatrical uniform after the end of the play, remaining in a Red Army tunic.
Tairov Alexander Yakovlevich - director and actor
1925-1927
Moscow