Abram Room

Biography

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 1914-1917 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 Meyerhold’s Theatre of the Revolution in Moscow, director and teacher of the Higher Pedagogical School of the All-Russian 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 1925-1934 he taught at VGIK as a senior lecturer. Room's 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. Ano…

Directed

1. Bed and Sofa (1927) — Director
2. The Ghost That Never Returns (1930) — Director
3. A Severe Young Man (1935) — Director
4. Silvery Dust (1953) — Director
5. The Traitor (1926) — Director
6. The Garnet Bracelet (1965) — Director
7. In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1946) — Director
8. The Invasion (1945) — Director
9. The Bay of Death (1926) — Director
10. A Man Before His Time (1973) — Director
11. Heart Beats Again (1956) — Director
12. Belated Flowers (1970) — Director
13. Jews on the Land (1927) — Director
14. Court of Honor (1949) — Director
15. Plan for Great Works (1930) — Director
16. The School of Scandal (1952) — Director
17. Our Girls (1942) — Director
18. Squadron No. 5 (1939) — Director
19. Sound Team Program No. 1 (1930) — Director
20. Wind from East (1940) — Director
21. The Race for Moonshine (1924) — Director
22. Potholes (1928) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927)