Director,
Writer,
Actor
Born in 1901, Russia
 
Died in 1971
Mikhail ROMM
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Михаил Ильич РОММ
Mikhaïl ROMM
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Director
1974 - I vsyo-taki ya veryu (И все-таки я верю) [documentary, 120 mn]
1965 - Obyknovyennyy fashizm (Обыкновенный фашизм) [documentary, 138 mn]
1961 - Devyat dney odnovo goda (Девять дней одного года) [fiction, 111 mn]
1956 - Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante (Убийство на улице Данте) [fiction, 104 mn]
1953 - Admiral Ushakov (Адмирал Ушаков) [fiction, 107 mn]
1953 - Korabli shturmuyut bastony (Корабли штурмуют бастионы) [fiction, 94 mn]
1950 - Sekretnaya missiya (Секретная миссия) [fiction, 86 mn]
1947 - Russkiy vopros (Русский вопрос) [fiction, 91 mn]
1944 - chelovek 217 (Человек 217) [fiction, 101 mn]
1941 - Mechta (Мечта) [fiction, 100 mn]
1939 - Lenin v 1918 godu (Ленин в 1918 году) [fiction, 112 mn]
1937 - Lenin v oktyabre (Ленин в октябре) [fiction, 103 mn]
1936 - Trinadtsat (Тринадцать) [fiction, 87 mn]
1934 - Pyshka (Пышка) [fiction, 69 mn]
 
Writer
1974 - I vsyo-taki ya veryu (И все-таки я верю) from Mikhail ROMM [documentary, 120 mn]
1965 - Obyknovyennyy fashizm (Обыкновенный фашизм) from Mikhail ROMM [documentary, 138 mn]
1961 - Devyat dney odnovo goda (Девять дней одного года) from Mikhail ROMM [fiction, 111 mn]
1941 - Mechta (Мечта) from Mikhail ROMM [fiction, 100 mn]
1936 - Trinadtsat (Тринадцать) from Mikhail ROMM [fiction, 87 mn]
 
Actor
1965 - Obyknovyennyy fashizm (Обыкновенный фашизм) from Mikhail ROMM [documentary, 138 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev

Author :

Awards :
Artiste du peuple de l’Union Soviétique (1950)
chelovek 217 :
Best Directing, Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1946
Devyat dney odnovo goda :
Grand Prix du Festival International de Karlovy-Vary, 1962
Pyshka :
Prix au Festival de Venise, 1935
Lenin v 1918 godu :
Prix Staline de 1er niveau pour Mikhail Romm, Aleksei Kapler, Nikolai Okhlopkov, et Boris Chtchoukine (à titre posthume), 1943.
Obyknovyennyy fashizm :
Prix spécial et prix de la critique au Festival international du film de Leipzig, 1965

Biography
Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central Russia. Romm later was avoiding any discussions regarding this painful memories, though he used his experience in the films about Lenin. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Arts and Technology as a sculptor (1925), where he studied under Anna Golubkina. Worked as a sculptor and interpreter. In 1928-30 he worked at Institute for extra-scholastic studies as researcher on the theory of Cinematography. From 1931 he worked at Mosfilm Studios, where he made his first film 'Pyshka' (1934). His next film '13' (1936) was considered the first Soviet "eastern" (a Soviet answer to "western"). During the years of "Great Terror" under Joseph Stalin Romm made two features and a documentary about Lenin. His criminal drama 'Murder on the Dante Street' (1956) was the first film for the great Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy. After an eight-year brake Romm made his 'Nine Days in One Year' (1962). It was an excellent psychological drama about the life and death of nuclear physicists. After the political shifts during and after the "Thaw", started by Nikita Khrushchev, Romm devoted his talent to documentary material. He worked like a sculptor, cutting through the massive Nazi archives of documentaries in Germany. His work was rewarded with an astounding result - 'Tiumph over violence' (1965) in which he also was a narrator. His last film 'I vse-taki Ya Veryu' (1974) was finished by his disciples Marlen Khutsiev and Elem Klimov. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
 

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- Ordinary Fascism (1965)_Eng subs. Film de Mikhaïl Romm 2019, Archive.org
- 2017 : Lénine n’a pas pris une ride… Lucie HEYME, 2017, autrefutur.net
- Cinematic Cold War : The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds , Denise YOUNGBLOOD, Tony SHAW, 2010, University Press of Kansas
- Обыкновенный фашизм , Yuri KHANIUTIN, , Mikhail ROMM, , Maya TUROVSKAJA, 2006, Seans, collection : Shedevry sovetskogo kino
- À propos de l’image de la France dans quelques films soviétiques (1929-1956) Natalia IAKOVLEVA, 2003, Presses Universitaires du Midi, Le Cinéma "stalinien"
- Михаил Ромм и его фильмы , Mark ZAK, 1988, Искусство
- Romm , Group of authors, 1981, in Association France-URSS, n°3
- Михаил Ромм и традиции советской кинорежиссуры , Mark ZAK, 1975, Исскуство
- Печать времени. Нея Зоркая о творчестве Михаила Ромма , Neya ZORKAYA, 1966, chapaev.media
- Девять дней одного года , Daniil KHRABROVITSKY, , Mikhail ROMM, 1962, Искусство
- Человек но. 217 : сценарий в 13 эпизодах , Yevgeni GABRILOVICH, , Mikhail ROMM, 1943, Госкиноиздать
- Тринадцать : киносценарий , Iosif PRUT, , Mikhail ROMM, 1936, Кинофотиздать