Mikhail Romm
Mikhail ROMM (1901-1971, Russia) started his career as a sculptor. He served in the Red Army. Around 1928, he changed his focus to film. He taught film makers such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Nikita Mikalhov. Romm’s most important film is the spiritual Mechta/Dream (1941).
Filmography
(Selection) Boule de Suif (1934) The Thirteen (1936), Lenin in October (1937), Dream (1941), The Russian Question (1948), Admiral Ushakov (1953), Nine Days in One Year (1962), And Still I Believe (1974).
Mikhail Romm at IFFR
The Thirteen
87'
USSR
IFFR 2011