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Abram Matveyevich Room (Russian: Абрам Матвеевич Роом; 28 June 1894 in Wilno, Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania) – 26 July 1976 in Moscow) was a Russian film director. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize.[1][2]

Biography

In 1914-1917 he studied at the St. Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute, between 1917 and 1922 at the medical faculty of Saratov State University.[3] From 1917 he worked in Saratov in the arts department as professor and rector of the Higher theatrical art workshops. Since 1923 he was the director of Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Theatre of the Revolution in Moscow, director and teacher of the Higher Pedagogical School of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in the Kremlin. Since 1924 he was the director at the studios Goskino, Sovkino, Soyuzkino. Since 1936 he was director at the studio Mosfilm. In 1925-1934 he taught at VGIK as a senior lecturer.[4]

Room's best known film is Bed and Sofa (1927) after a screenplay by Lev Kuleshov and Viktor Shklovsky. In the film, a woman who is married to a construction worker has an affair with their lodger. The film tracks the evolution of a housewife into a strong liberated woman, which was very unusual for its time. Another notable title is The Ghost That Never Returns (1929)

The first movie he directed was The Vodka Chase in 1924.

He directed the first talking picture in the Soviet Union, the 1930 documentary The Plan for Great Works. The other films he directed were Traitor (1926), Ruts (1928), Criminals (1933), Squadron No. 5 (1939), Invasion (1945), V gorakh Jugoslavii (1946), School for Scandal (1952), The Garnet Bracelet (1965), Late Flowers (1969), and The Untimely Man (1973).

Cited in the German book Texte zur Theorie des Films (Albersmeier 1998, p.304) [texts about theory of film]: "A. Room, declared opponent of the concept of Sergey Eisenstein, postulated in his essay Moi kinoubezhdeniya (My beliefs of film) in: Soviet screen, 1926, m. 8, p. 5: Prior importance in film must be the living human... [in german: Vorrangige Bedeutung kommt im Film dem lebendigen Menschen zu...], exactly that what Eisenstein declined."

Selected filmography

• The Bay of Death (1926)
• Bed and Sofa (1927)
• Jews on Land (1927)
• Potholes (1928)
• The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)
• The Plan for Great Works (1930)
• A Severe Young Man (1936)
• Silvery Dust (1953)
• The Garnet Bracelet (1964)
• Late Flowers (1970)
• A Man Before His Time (1971)

References

External links

• Abram Room at IMDb
• Abram Room at Find a Grave

На других языках

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[de] Abram Room

Abram Room (auf russ. Абрам Метвеевич Роом) (* 28. Juni 1894 in Wilna, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 26. Juli 1976 in Moskau, Sowjetunion) war ein sowjetischer Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor.

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- [en] Abram Room

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[ru] Роом, Абрам Матвеевич

Абра́м Матве́евич Ро́ом (при рождении Абра́м Мо́рдхелевич Ром (Ромм)[2][3]; 16 [28] июня 1894, Вильно, — 26 июля 1976, Москва) — советский кинорежиссёр и сценарист. Лауреат двух Сталинских премии (1946, 1949), народный артист РСФСР (1965).

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