Abram Room

Abram Room

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. 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), In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1946), School for Scandal (1952), The Garnet Bracelet (1964), Late Flowers (1969), and A Man Before His Time (1971). 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 Sergei 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."

  • Title: Abram Room
  • Popularity: 0.859
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1894-06-28
  • Place of Birth: Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
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  • Also Known As: Абрам Роом
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Abram Room Movies

  • 1927
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    Bed and Sofa

    Bed and Sofa

    6.5 1927 HD

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  • 1927
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    Jews on the Land

    Jews on the Land

    6.5 1927 HD

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  • 1930
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    The Ghost That Never Returns

    The Ghost That Never Returns

    5.8 1930 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Bay of Death

    The Bay of Death

    5.3 1926 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Traitor

    The Traitor

    4.9 1926 HD

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  • 2019
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    A Severe Young Man

    A Severe Young Man

    5.3 2019 HD

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  • 1930
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    Plan for Great Works

    Plan for Great Works

    1 1930 HD

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    Plan for Great Works

    Plan for Great Works

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1956
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    Heart Beats Again

    Heart Beats Again

    6.8 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Mystery of the Eternal Night

    The Mystery of the Eternal Night

    4.8 1956 HD

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  • 1940
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    Wind from East

    Wind from East

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1953
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    Silver Dust

    Silver Dust

    5.3 1953 HD

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  • 1946
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    In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

    In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

    5 1946 HD

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  • 1952
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    The School of Scandal

    The School of Scandal

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Invasion

    The Invasion

    5.8 1945 HD

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  • 1927
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    Bed and Sofa

    Bed and Sofa

    6.5 1927 HD

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  • 1942
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    Our Girls

    Our Girls

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Garnet Bracelet

    The Garnet Bracelet

    6.2 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Garnet Bracelet

    The Garnet Bracelet

    6.2 1965 HD

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  • 1973
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    A Man Before His Time

    A Man Before His Time

    6.3 1973 HD

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  • 1949
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    Sud chesti

    Sud chesti

    6 1949 HD

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  • 1978
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    Enemies

    Enemies

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1939
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    Squadron No. 5

    Squadron No. 5

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1970
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    Belated Flowers

    Belated Flowers

    3 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Belated Flowers

    Belated Flowers

    3 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    A Man Before His Time

    A Man Before His Time

    6.3 1973 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Wind

    The Wind

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1930
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    Sound Team Program No. 1

    Sound Team Program No. 1

    5 1930 HD

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