Abram Room

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Abram Room (in Russian Абрам Метвеевич Роом ) (born June 28, 1894 in Vilnius , Russian Empire , † July 26, 1976 in Moscow , Soviet Union) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Born in today's Lithuanian capital Vilnius, Abram Metveyevich Room worked as a dentist and journalist in Moscow in the late years of tsarism. Since 1914 he also worked as an amateur actor. From 1915 to 1917 Abram Room attended the Institute for Neuro-Psychology in Petrograd and performed at the student theater there. After the outbreak of the October Revolution he was employed as a military doctor. From 1919 he concentrated entirely on art: he was first seen as an actor and director at the experimental children's theater in Saratov before he was hired by Vsevolod Meyerhold in 1923 at the Moscow Theater of the Revolution. The director colleague Lew Kuleschow then brought Room to the state film school .

Abram Room began his practical work behind the camera in 1924 as an assistant director. In the same year he was able to direct a film for the first time. With a bed and a sofa , Room made his first work of importance in 1927, a study of everyday Soviet life that is true to the environment and not without irony. Room reached an early artistic high point with the oil workers' and strike drama “ People's Arsenal ”, which was influenced by the Expressionist design style , “even if many scenes were characterized by striking communist propaganda and distortions of the political opponent”. Room then shot the short film “ Manomjetr No. 1 “the first spoken word film in Soviet cinema. After that, his work was exposed to more and more restrictions on the part of the Stalinist censorship, and Room's oeuvre gradually lost its importance. “His best later works are characterized by a dedicated character drawing of people who get into personal and professional conflict. In doing so, Rooms' representation of everything western turned into one-sided black and white distortion. "

Room, who stood in clear contrast to his famous colleague Sergei Eisenstein in his cinematic conceptions and his direction concept , received the Stalin Prize twice (1946 and 1949) and in 1965 was honored as a People's Artist of the RSFSR .

Filmography

As a feature film director, unless otherwise stated

  • 1924: Gonka sa samogonkoj / Гонка за самогонкой
  • 1924: Sto gawarit MOS? / MOS reklami (short film, also script)
  • 1926: The death barge ( Buchta smerti / Бухта смерти )
  • 1926: Predatel / Предатель
  • 1926: Krasnaja presnja (short film, co-director)
  • 1927: Bed and sofa ( Tretja meschtschanskaja / Третья Мещанская ) (also co-script)
  • 1927: Evrej i semlja / Еврей и земля
  • 1928: Uchabi / Ухабы (also co-script)
  • 1929: People's arsenal ( Priwidenije kotoroje ne voswroneschajetsja / Привидение, которое не возвращается )
  • 1930: Plan weliki rabot / План великих работ
  • 1930/1931: Manomjetr No. 1 & No. 2 (short films)
  • 1936: Strogi junoscha / Строгий юноша
  • 1939: Eskadrilja No. 5 / Эскадрилья № 5
  • 1941: Weter s wostoka / Ветер с востока
  • 1945: Naschestwije / Нашествие
  • 1946: W Gorach Yugoslavian / В горах Югославии
  • 1948: Court of Honor ( Sud tschesti / Суд чести )
  • 1950: Soviet mira (unfinished)
  • 1952: Schkola eposlowija / Школа злословия
  • 1953: Business with death ( Serebristaja Piel / Серебристая пыль )
  • 1956: Serdschije betsja wnow / Сердце бьется вновь
  • 1964: Granatowij braslet / Гранатовый браслет (also co-script)
  • 1969: Zweti saposdalje / Цветы запоздалые (also screenplay)
  • 1971: Preschdjewremenni tschelowek / Преждевременный человек

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 6, p. 617. Berlin 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Room, Abram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Роом, Абрам Метвеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1976
Place of death Moscow