Mikhail Romm

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-01-24 (70 years old)

Deathday

1971-11-01

Place of Birth

Irkutsk, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Mikhail Romm

Biography

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 h...

Acting

1974

1965

Triumph Over Violence

as Narrator (voice)

1966

World Without a Game

as Archive footage

1958

Sergei Eisenstein

as Himself (archive footage)

1985

Production

1943

Dream

as Director

1965

1962

1934

Boule de Suif

as Director

1937

Lenin in October

as Director

1953

1953

Admiral Ushakov

as Director

1945

Girl No. 217

as Director

1937

The Thirteen

as Director

1937

The Thirteen

as Writer

1950

Secret Mission

as Director

1939

Lenin in 1918

as Director

1974

1948

1945

Girl No. 217

as Writer

1934

Boule de Suif

as Writer

1943

Dream

as Writer

1958

Lenin Is Alive

as Director

1933

1974

1956

1949

1957

1956

A Weary Road

as Screenplay

1958

A Groom from the Right Society

as Creative Producer

1956

1948

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