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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.
Abram Room was born on 28 June 1894 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and writer, known for Nashestvie (1945), Sud chesti (1949) and Belated Flowers (1970). He died on 26 July 1976 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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- Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
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- Director, Writer, Actor
Like many early Soviet directors, Abram Room (1894–1976) had come to the cinema along a circuitous path. A physician specializing in psychiatry and neurology, he served as a medical officer with the Red Army during the Russian civil war that followed the revolutions of 1917.
Jul 28, 1976 · MOSCOW, July 27 (AP) —The Soviet press agency Tass today reported the death of Abram M. Room, who became a film director shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, gained his greatest fame...
I discuss the history of Abram Room’s Strogii iunosha (A strict young man), a remarkable fi lm about the “new Soviet man” banned in 1936 in the aft ermath of the antiformalism campaign, to show that it was banned for political and not for aesthetic reasons. In fact, the problem with the fi lm was not that it
Jul 1, 2015 · Abram Room was the forgotten director of early Soviet cinema - a leading figure of the 1920s-30s who worked in film for five decades but who has only recently become a name for film scholars...
Abram Room is known as an Director, Writer, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Bed and Sofa, The Ghost That Never Returns, Silver Dust, The Mystery of the Eternal Night, A Severe Young Man, The Traitor, The Invasion, and In the Mountains of Yugoslavia.
