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 19141917 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 Meyerholds Theatre of the Revolution in Moscow director and teacher of the Higher Pedagogical School of the AllRussian 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 19251934 he taught at VGIK as a senior lecturer Rooms 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 p304 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