Fridrikh Ermler

Known for DirectingBorn 1898-05-13Died 1967-07-12Rezekne, Latvia

Fridrikh Markovich Ermler[a] (13 May 1898 – 12 July 1967) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951). After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolshevists. Captured and tortured by the White army, he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War. From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy. In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies – the movie Vstrechny (The Counterplan). He also was one of the founders of the Creative Association KEM (together with E. Ioganson). In 1929-1931 Ermler studied at the Communist Academy and wrote for the newspaper Kino. He also became the chairman of the Russian Association of Revolutionary Filmmakers. In 1940 he became the director of the Lenfilm studio. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked at the Central United Film Studio of Feature Films (TsOKS) in Alma-Ata (now Kazakhfilm Film Studio). He died on 12 July 1967, in Komarovo. A memorial plaque was placed on the house in Leningrad where he lived from 1930 to 1962.Read more

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Kotovsky

The Longtime Resident

Our Cinema

Skarlatina

The Great Force

Dinner Party

Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry

Peasants

Facing the Judgement of History

Antosha Rybkin

House in the Snow-Drifts

No Greater Love

The Parisian Cobbler

Air Taxi

Fragment of an Empire

Katka's Reinette Apples

Unfinished Story

The Murderers Are Coming

Lad from Our Town

Counterplan

The District Secretary

Great Citizen

The Cutlass

Wait for Me

The Turning Point

Smile!

Chapayev is with Us

The Magic Beam

First Day

To the Sounds of Dombras

Children of the Storm