- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 24, 1901
- Place of Birth
- Irkutsk, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- November 1, 1971
Mikhail Romm
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 …
Filmography
movieВГИК100. Признание в любви
2019 · self (archive footage)
tvLegends of Cinema
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieMikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
1985 · Himself (archive footage)
movieAnd Still I Believe
1974 · himself, Writer, Director
movieWorld Without a Game
1966 · Self (archive footage)
movieJourney
1966 · Producer
movieTriumph Over Violence
1965 · Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer
movieTram to Other Cities
1962 · Producer
movieNine Days of One Year
1962 · Director, Writer
movieNorthern Story
1960 · Consulting Producer
movieReports from Lebyazhye
1960 · Producer
movieA Groom from the Right Society
1958 · Creative Producer
movieFour
1958 · Producer
movieSergei Eisenstein
1958 · Self (archive footage)
movieLenin Is Alive
1958 · Director
movieThree Came Out of the Woods
1958 · Producer
movieAn Ordinary Man
1957 · Writer, Producer
movieA Weary Road
1956 · Screenplay
movieMurder on Dante Street
1956 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieBehind Show Windows
1956 · Producer
movieThe Crash of the Emirate
1955 · Producer
movieThe Grasshopper
1955 · Producer
movieAttack from the Sea
1953 · Director
movieAdmiral Ushakov
1953 · Director
movieSecret Mission
1950 · Director
movieVladimir Ilich Lenin
1949 · Writer, Director
movieThe Russian Question
1948 · Director, Screenplay
movieGirl No. 217
1945 · Director, Writer
movieDream
1943 · Director, Writer
movieAleksandr Parkhomenko
1942 · Producer
movieLenin in 1918
1939 · Director
movieLenin in October
1937 · Director
movieThe Thirteen
1937 · Writer, Director
movieBoule de Suif
1934 · Director, Writer
movieConveyor of Death
1933 · Writer
movieMen and Jobs
1932 · Assistant Director