Director
Abram Room
June 28, 1894 · Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Abram Matveyevich Room (Russian: Абрам Матвеевич Роом; real name Abram Mordkhelevich Rom, Russian: Абрам Мордхелевич Ром; 28 June 1894, Vilna – 26 July 1976, Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.
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.
Often works with
Olga Zhizneva
7 titles together
The Ghost That Never Returns, A Severe Young Man, The Garnet Bracelet
Leonid Yurenyov
4 titles together
Bed and Sofa, The Ghost That Never Returns, The Traitor
Maksim Shtraukh
3 titles together
The Ghost That Never Returns, A Severe Young Man, Court of Honor
Boris Shlikhting
2 titles together
Bed and Sofa, The Traitor
Daniil Vvedenskiy
2 titles together
The Ghost That Never Returns, The Bay of Death
Naum Rogozhin
2 titles together
A Kiss from Mary Pickford, The Traitor
Full filmography · 23
Enemies
Writer
1978
A Man Before His Time
Director and Writer
1973
Belated Flowers
Director and Writer
1970
The Garnet Bracelet
Director
1965
Heart Beats Again
Director
1956
Silvery Dust
Director
1953
The School of Scandal
Director
1952
Court of Honor
Director
1949
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia
Director
1946
The Invasion
Director
1945
Our Girls
Director
1942
Wind from East
Director
1940