Abram Room

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.