Mikhail Romm

Known for DirectingBorn 1901-01-24Died 1971-11-01Irkutsk, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Mikhail Ilych Romm (Russian: Михаил Ильич Ромм; 24 January [O.S. 11 January] 1901 – 1 November 1971) was a Soviet film director. He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1918 - 1921, he served in the Red Army during the Russian civil war, first as a signalman and later rising to the rank of inspector of a Special Commission concerning the numbers of the Red Army and Fleet of the Field Staff of the Supreme Military Soviet of the Republic. As such he travelled a lot and had the opportunity to see much of the life in different parts of the country, something that he later said he "recalled with gratitude". In 1925 he graduated as a sculptor from the class of Anna Golubkina of the Highest Artistic-Technical Institute and worked as a sculptor and translator. In 1928-1930 he conducted research on the theory of cinema in the Institute for the methods of extra-scholastic work. Since 1931 he worked at the Mosfilm studio. In 1940-1943 he was an artistic leader for the Mosfilm films production. In 1942-1947 he was the director of a theater studio for movie actors. From 1938 he was a lecturer, from 1948 he was the leader of the actor's-producer department of the VGIK, professor (from 1962). He influenced many prominent film-directors, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Grigori Chukhrai, Vasily Shukshin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Georgi Daneliya, Aleksander Mitta, Igor Talankin, Rezo Chkheidze, Gleb Panfilov, Vladimir Basov, Tengiz Abuladze, Elem Klimov and many others. He wrote many books and articles on the theory of cinematographic art, and also memoirs. He was awarded the Stalin Prize 5 times (1941, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951). Romm was an honorary corresponding member of the Academy of the skills of DDR (1967).Read more

Movies & web series

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Four

The Crash of the Emirate

Three Came Out of the Woods

Triumph Over Violence

An Ordinary Man

Reports from Lebyazhye

Northern Story

Nine Days of One Year

A Groom from the Right Society

Behind Show Windows

Conveyor of Death

Admiral Ushakov

Boule de Suif

A Weary Road

Attack from the Sea

Lenin Is Alive

Lenin in October

Murder on Dante Street

And Still I Believe

Dream

The Thirteen

The Grasshopper

Lenin in 1918

Aleksandr Parkhomenko

The Russian Question

Secret Mission

Girl No. 217

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Men and Jobs

Legends of Cinema

Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director

World Without a Game

Journey

Tram to Other Cities

Sergei Eisenstein