- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 13, 1898
- Place of Birth
- Rezekne, Latvia
- Died
- July 12, 1967
Fridrikh Ermler
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 dire…
Filmography
movieSmile!
2024 · Archive footage
movieFacing the Judgement of History
1965 · Director
movieThe Magic Beam
1963 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Longtime Resident
1962 · Consulting Producer
First Day
movieFirst Day
1958 · Director
movieUnfinished Story
1955 · Director
movieThe Cutlass
1954 · Producer
movieDinner Party
1953 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Great Force
1950 · Director, Writer
movieThe Turning Point
1945 · Director
movieWait for Me
1943 · Producer
movieAir Taxi
1943 · Producer
movieNo Greater Love
1943 · Director
movieKotovsky
1943 · Producer
movieTo the Sounds of Dombras
1943 · Producer
movieThe District Secretary
1942 · Producer
movieLad from Our Town
1942 · Producer
movieThe Murderers Are Coming
1942 · Producer
movieAntosha Rybkin
1941 · Producer
movieAnton Ivanovich Gets Angry
1941 · Producer
movieChapayev is with Us
1941 · Producer
movieOur Cinema
1940 · (archive footage)
movieGreat Citizen
1938 · Director, Writer
moviePeasants
1935 · Director, Writer
movieCounterplan
1932 · Director, Writer
movieFragment of an Empire
1929 · Writer, Director
movieThe Parisian Cobbler
1927 · Director
House in the Snow-Drifts
movieHouse in the Snow-Drifts
1927 · Director
movieChildren of the Storm
1927 · Director
movieKatka's Reinette Apples
1926 · Director
Skarlatina
movieSkarlatina
1924 · Director