Friedrich Markowitsch Ermler

Fridrikh ermler ( Latvian Fridrihs Ermlers ; Russian Фридрих Маркович Эрмлер ; real name: Vladimir Markovich Breslaw Russian Владимир Маркович Бреслав , born May 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. May 1898 ^greg. In Reschiza , Vitebsk , Russian Empire , today Rezekne, Latvia ; † July 12, 1967 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet actor , director and screenwriter.

Ermler first studied pharmacy and joined the tsarist army in 1917 . In the same year he took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolsheviks . During the civil war , he fought in the Red Army in northern Russia and was taken prisoner during which he was tortured by members of the White Army . Only after the end of the civil war did he officially join the Communist Party .

In 1923 he began studying acting and scriptwriting at the Petrograd Film School . During this time he already took on his first film roles. In 1924 he founded an experimental film studio (KEM), where he made his first short film as a director. In 1929 his film The Man Who Lost Memory was released . It is (long before similar projects in other film productions) about the Petrograd factory worker Filimonov, who lost memory in 1916 due to a traumatic event during the war. Ten years later (1926) he woke up in the now Soviet city and wandered through the metropolis he knew as "Petrograd" . But in vain does he keep an eye out for the factory magnates in "Leningrad" ; even the tsar no longer exists. In this way, Ermler conveys the advantages of socialism to the audience in the spirit of agitprop .

In the same year 1929, Ermler traveled through Europe to promote Soviet cinematography. In 1932 he made his first sound film , Der Gegenplan , but remained true to the social realism of his silent films . Ermler now used music as another element of his film work and worked with Dmitri Shostakovich in this film as well as for The Great Patriot (1938), a Soviet heroic film in the style of Chapayev , to popularize his music.

In 1935 Ermler traveled to Hollywood to present Soviet film art in the American film metropolis. In 1939, Ermler was appointed artistic director of the Soviet film production company Lenfilm . He held this position until 1943. During the Second World War he made the propaganda film You Defend the Fatherland . In the years that followed, war would become a central theme of his films. In 1945, his film The Great Turnaround contained original documentary recordings of the Battle of Stalingrad in addition to the play . In 1946 the film was awarded the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival . He should also use the insertion of documentary recordings in other films.

In 2003 the Moscow International Film Festival dedicated a large retrospective to Friedrich Ermler.

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SURNAME	Ermler, Friedrich Markowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ermlers, Frīdrihs (Latvian); Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович (Russian); Breslaw, Vladimir Markowitsch (real name); Бреслав, Владимир Маркович (real name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reshiza
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1967
Place of death	Leningrad