Fridrikh Ermler

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-05-13 (69 years old)

Deathday

1967-07-12

Place of Birth

Rezekne, Latvia

Fridrikh Ermler

Biography

Fridrikh Markovich Ermler[a] (13 May 1898 – 12 July 1967) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951). After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolshevists. Captured and tortured by the White army, he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War. From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy. In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies – the movie Vstrechny (The Counterplan). He also was one of the founders of the Cr...

Acting

1940

Our Cinema

as (archive footage)

2024

Smile!

as Archive footage

Production

1950

The Great Force

as Director

1945

1927

1929

1938

Great Citizen

as Director

1943

No Greater Love

as Director

1935

Peasants

as Director

1955

Unfinished Story

as Director

1924

Skarlatina

as Director

1932

Shame

as Director

1953

Dinner Party

as Director

1938

Great Citizen

as Writer

1950

1935

Peasants

as Writer

1953

Dinner Party

as Screenplay

1943

Air Taxi

as Producer

1932

Shame

as Writer

1941

Antosha Rybkin

as Producer

1943

Kotovsky

as Producer

1943

Wait for Me

as Producer

1942

1942

1941

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