Biography
Abram Matveyevich Room (Russian: Абрам Матвеевич Роом; 28 June 1894 in Wilno, Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania) – 26 July 1976 in Moscow) was a Russian film director. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and winner of the Stalin Prize. In 1914-1917 he studied at the St. Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute, between 1917 and 1922 at the medical faculty of Saratov State University. From 1917 he worked in Saratov in the arts department as professor and rector of the Higher theatrical art workshops. Since 1923 he was the director of Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Theatre of the Revolution in Moscow, director and teacher of the Higher Pedagogical School of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in the Kremlin. Since 1924 he was the director at the studios Goskino, Sovkino, Soyuzkino. Since 1936 he was director at the studio Mosfilm. In 1925-1934 he taught at VGIK as a senior lecturer.Room's best known film is Bed and Sofa (1927) after a screenplay by Lev Kuleshov and Viktor Shklovsky. In the film, a woman who is married to a construction worker has an affair with their lodger. The film tracks the evolution of a housewife into a strong liberated woman, which was very unusual for its time. Another notable title is The Ghost That Never Returns (1929)
The first movie he directed was The Vodka Chase in 1924.
He directed the first talking picture in the Soviet Union, the 1930 documentary The Plan for Great Works. The other films he directed were Traitor (1926), Ruts (1928), Criminals (1933), Squadron No. 5 (1939), Invasion (1945), V gorakh Jugoslavii (1946), School for Scandal (1952), The Garnet Bracelet (1965), Late Flowers (1969), and The Untimely Man (1973).
Cited in the German book Texte zur Theorie des Films (Albersmeier 1998, p.304) [texts about theory of film]:
"A. Room, declared opponent of the concept of Sergey Eisenstein, postulated in his essay Moi kinoubezhdeniya (My beliefs of film) in: Soviet screen, 1926, m. 8, p. 5: Prior importance in film must be the living human... [in german: Vorrangige Bedeutung kommt im Film dem lebendigen Menschen zu...], exactly that what Eisenstein declined."
Filmography
all 23
Movies 23
Director 21
Writer 2
A Severe Young Man (2019)
Enemies (1978)
A Man Before His Time (1973)
Belated Flowers (1970)
The Garnet Bracelet (1965)
Heart Beats Again (1956)
The Mystery of the Eternal Night (1956)
Silver Dust (1953)
The School of Scandal (1952)
Sud chesti (1949)
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1946)
The Invasion (1945)
Боевой киносборник 13: Наши девушки (1942)
Wind from East (1940)
Squadron No. 5 (1939)
The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)
Sound Team Program No. 1 (1930)
Plan for Great Works (1930)
Bed and Sofa (1927)
Jews on the Land (1927)
Veter (1926)
The Bay of Death (1926)
The Traitor (1926)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1894-06-28
Deathday1976-07-26 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceVilnius, Lithuania
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsАбрам Роом
AwardsMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the October Revolution, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Stalin Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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