FILM DIRECTOR

Mikhail Romm

1901 - 1971

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Mikhail Ilyich Romm (Russian: Михаил Ильич Ромм; 24 January [O.S. 11 January] 1901 – 1 November 1971) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Romm has received more than 93,071 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Mikhail Romm is the 527th most popular film director (up from 534th in 2019), the 967th most popular biography from Russia (up from 973rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Over the past year Mikhail Romm has had the most page views in the with 89,063 views, followed by English (13,687), and Spanish (2,561). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Crimean Tatar (1,158.14%), Chinese (741.67%), and Haitian (130.96%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mikhail Romm ranks 527 out of 2,041. Before him are Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Yates, Seijun Suzuki, Tom Tykwer, Benoît Jacquot, and Ulrich Seidl. After him are Gorō Miyazaki, Ken Annakin, Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, Ferdinand Zecca, and Alain Corneau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Mikhail Romm ranks 126. Before him are Raúl Prebisch, György Orth, Vladimir Sofronitsky, August Schmidhuber, Claude Autant-Lara, and Ho Feng-Shan. After him are Salchak Toka, Lee Hoi-chuen, Wolfgang Schmieder, Joe Davis, Jean Guitton, and Kjeld Abell. Among people deceased in 1971, Mikhail Romm ranks 85. Before him are Joseph Valachi, Georgy Babakin, Mikhail Yangel, Bella Darvi, Gertrud von Le Fort, and Vikram Sarabhai. After him are Wasfi Tal, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Otto Lasch, James Alberione, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, and Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Romm ranks 967 out of 3,761. Before him are Eero Järnefelt (1863), Nadezhda Durova (1783), Pavel Pestel (1793), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), and Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943). After him are Viktor Afanasyev (1948), Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), Peter Struve (1870), Igor Strelkov (1970), and Elisaveta Bykova (1913).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Mikhail Romm ranks 18. Before him are Ladislas Starevich (1882), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Gleb Panfilov (1934), and Boris Barnet (1902). After him are Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), and Sergei Bodrov (1948).

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Filmography

Boule de Suif
Director
A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
Sep 15o 19346.5 / 10
Triumph Over Violence
Director
Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firmest of convictions that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
Dec 31o 19657.406 / 10
Nine Days of One Year
Director
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Mar 5o 19627.261 / 10