Mikhail Romm

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Montatore, Produttore

24 gennaio 1901 — 1 novembre 1971 (70 anni)
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).

Famoso per

  • Triumph Over Violence
    Triumph Over Violence1965
  • Il quarantunesimo
    Il quarantunesimo1956
  • Nove giorni in un anno
    Nove giorni in un anno1962
  • Lenin v oktyabre
    Lenin v oktyabre1937
  • Lenin nel 1918
    Lenin nel 19181939
  • Sangue sulla sabbia
    Sangue sulla sabbia1937
  • Admiral Ushakov
    Admiral Ushakov1953
  • Zhenikh s togo sveta
    Zhenikh s togo sveta1958
  • Eppure credo
    Eppure credo1974
  • Attack from the Sea
    Attack from the Sea1953
  • Girl No. 217
    Girl No. 2171945
  • La questione russa
    La questione russa1948
  • Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante
    Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante1956
  • Sekretnaya missiya
    Sekretnaya missiya1950
  • Behind Show Windows
    Behind Show Windows1956
  • La cicala
    La cicala1955
  • Dolgiy put
    Dolgiy put1956
  • Vladimir Ilich Lenin
    Vladimir Ilich Lenin1949