Joseph N. Ermolieff

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Joseph N. Ermolieff , actually Iossif Nikolajewitsch Yermoljew (born March 24, 1889 in Moscow , Russian Empire , † February 20, 1962 in Los Angeles , USA ) was a Russian film producer with careers in Tsarist Russia, Western Europe and the United States .

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Born Iossif Nikolayevich Yermoljew was the most important and most ambitious film producer in the tsarist empire. He joined film in 1907 as an employee of the Moscow branch of the French production company Pathé . In 1912 Yermoljew was a co-founder of the Rostov-on-Don film distribution company Yermoljew, Sarchin & Sjegjel , and three years later he moved to Moscow. There Iossif Yermoljew founded his own production company, which  engaged the leading Russian directors and actors - Ivan Mosschuchin was the house star .

As a result of the October Revolution, the tsarist star producer went with virtually his entire staff (cameramen, architects, writers and actors) in the spring of 1919 on the (of Belarusian Garden held) Crimea and Istanbul to Western Europe and settled in Paris at. In the French capital, the Russian exile initially worked as a production manager at Gaumont Franco Films and built up a production company again ( Les Films Ermolieff , later Productions Albatros ) under the francophone version of his name, Jacques Ermolieff . In the period that followed, he actually gathered all Russian film emigrants in exile from Western Europe around him. Many of the Ermolieff films produced in France were also shown successfully in Germany and Austria . While his French company continued to produce, Ermolieff moved to Munich for a few years in 1922 to install another studio there. His version of Der Kurier des Zaren with Adolf Wohlbrück in the title role should also be a great international success.

On June 29, 1936 (arrival date), he traveled to the United States for the first time with the intention of producing an American version of The Tsar's Courier under the title The Soldier and the Lady . After his return to France he produced a French film and made a German version of it (from midnight) . It would be his last European work. On June 7, 1937 (arrival in New York City) Ermolieff moved to America for good and was naturalized in Los Angeles in 1942 as Joseph Ermolieff. However , he found it very difficult to gain a foothold in Hollywood . After the Second World War, he produced two exotic legionnaires' fabrics for Hollywood, set in North Africa.

Filmography

  • 1915: Peterburgskije trutschkobi
  • 1916: Pljaska smerti
  • 1916: Pikovaya dama
  • 1916: Shkwal
  • 1916: Kulissi ekrana
  • 1916: Na wiertschine slawi
  • 1917: Ni nado kruwi
  • 1917: Father Sergius (Otiez Sergej)
  • 1918: Wlast tmi
  • 1921: Arabian Nights (Les contes des mille et une nuits)
  • 1922: The mysterious house (La maison du mystère)
  • 1922: Marriage stories (Le brasier ardent)
  • 1923: Extinguishing Torch (Kean)
  • 1923: Love triumphs (Le chant de l'amour triomphant)
  • 1923: your misstep
  • 1923: La dame masquée
  • 1924: Le lion des mogols
  • 1924: Depths of the big city
  • 1924: Taras Bulba
  • 1924: The gallant prince (Le prince charming)
  • 1925: Artist's Blood (Âme d'artiste)
  • 1925: La cible
  • 1926: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
  • 1928: The Count of Monte Christo, two parts (Monte Cristo)
  • 1928: Volga-Volga
  • 1931: Bouboule: The knight at the wheel (La bande à Bouboule , artistic direction)
  • 1932: The girl from Montparnasse
  • 1932: Embrassez-moi (artistic direction)
  • 1933: Naked like Adam (Nu comme un ver)
  • 1933: La mille et deuxième nuit (also screenplay)
  • 1934: Carnival of Life (L'enfant du carnaval)
  • 1936: The Tsar's courier
  • 1937: The Soldier and the Lady
  • 1937: Nuits de prince (also German verse: from midnight)
  • 1948: Riots in Morocco (Outpost in Morocco)
  • 1953: Focal Point Algiers (Fort Algiers)

literature

Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fitz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 578 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Ermolieff, Joseph N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ермольев, Иосиф Николаевич (Russian); Yermoljew, Iossif Nikolajewitsch (maiden name); Ermolieff, Jacques N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1962
Place of death Los Angeles , USA