Fridrikh Ermler

Fridrikh Markovich Ermlera 13 May 1898 12 July 1967 was a Soviet film director actor and screenwriter He was a fourtime recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941 twice in 1946 and in 1951 After studying pharmacology he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolshevists Captured and tortured by the White army he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies the movie Vstrechny The Counterplan He also was one of the founders of the Creative Association KEM together with E Ioganson In 19291931 Ermler studied at the Communist Academy and wrote for the newspaper Kino He also became the chairman of the Russian Association of Revolutionary Filmmakers In 1940 he became the director of the Lenfilm studio Between 1941 and 1944 he worked at the Central United Film Studio of Feature Films TsOKS in AlmaAta now Kazakhfilm Film Studio He died on 12 July 1967 in Komarovo A memorial plaque was placed on the house in Leningrad where he lived from 1930 to 1962