Abram Room
Film director
1894 – 1976
Who was Abram Room?
Abram Matveyevich Room was a Russian film director.
Room's best known film is Bed and Sofa 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
In 1923 he became a member of Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Theatre of the Revolution. 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 Five Year Plan. The other films he directed were Traitor, Ruts, Criminals, Squadron No. 5, Invasion, V gorakh Jugoslavii, School for Scandal, The Garnet Bracelet, Belated Flowers, and The Untimely Man.
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- Born
- Jun 28, 1894
Vilnius - Also known as
- Abram Matveyevich Room
- Spouses
- Olga Zhiznyeva
( - 1976/07/26)
- Olga Zhiznyeva
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Russian Empire
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 26, 1976
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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