Leonid Trauberg ^People

His mother Emilia Solomonovna Weiland was born in Bessarabia. InDecember 1921, together with Grigori Kozintsev, G. K. Kryzhitsky and Sergei Yutkevich he wrote the Manifesto of the Eccentric Theater, which was announced during a debate organized by them. In 1922, Kozintsev and Trauberg organized a theater workshop Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), and in the same year staged an eccentric re-imagining of the play Marriage by Nikolai Gogol. For two years they staged three more plays based on their own material, and in 1924 moved their experi- ments in the area of eccentric comedy in film, transforming thetheater workshop into the Film School FEKS.The Adventures of Oktyabrina (1924) - the first short film of Kozintsev and Trauberg was a continuation of their theatrical experiences based on their own script, it was an attempt to combine politics (to expose the NEPman who helped the imperia-lists) with outright buffoonery and accordingto Yury Tynyanov,a rampant collection of tricks, which the directors amassed, starved for movies. In the second eccentric short film Mishki versus Yudenich (1925) which no longer starred variety and circus actors who joined the directors from the theater (amongthem was Sergey Martinson), instead theactors were students of the film school, including Sergei Gerasimov, Janina'Zejmo, Andrei Kostrichkin.