Abram Room

Directing

Abram Room

Born — Died

1894-06-28 — 1976-07-26

Place of birth

Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Known for

Directing

Credits

34 titles

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 K…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

A Man Before His Time poster
6.5

Engineer Yakov Bogomolov is a workaholic who is carried away by his work it so much that he does not notice what is happening around him. Young wife Olga is cheating on him, friends betray, companions do not understand and deceive...

A Man Before His Time

1973

A Man Before His Time poster
6.5

Engineer Yakov Bogomolov is a workaholic who is carried away by his work it so much that he does not notice what is happening around him. Young wife Olga is cheating on him, friends betray, companions do not understand and deceive...

A Man Before His Time

1973

A Severe Young Man poster
5.5

A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.

A Severe Young Man

1935

The Ghost That Never Returns poster
5.7

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.

The Ghost That Never Returns

1930

The School of Scandal poster
10.0

Nowhere have they so deftly slandered and arranged intrigues, as in the salon of Lady Sniruel. Young lady Tizl quickly enters the taste of high life, taking the gentleman's wooing. She does not suspect that a serious test awaits her.

The School of Scandal

1952

Potholes poster
NR

Lost movie.

Potholes

1928

Potholes poster
NR

Lost movie.

Potholes

1928

Bed and Sofa poster
6.4

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Bed and Sofa

1927

Bed and Sofa poster
6.4

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Bed and Sofa

1927

The Garnet Bracelet poster
6.8

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

The Garnet Bracelet

1965

The Garnet Bracelet poster
6.8

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

The Garnet Bracelet

1965

Silvery Dust poster
5.4

An American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his son makes the discovery public with more consequences.

Silvery Dust

1953

Wind from East poster
NR

A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.

Wind from East

1940

The Traitor poster
5.2

An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.

The Traitor

1926

Enemies poster
10.0

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

Enemies

1978

On the Count's Ruins poster
7.7

The film takes place during the civil war. Tolya Dergach, having lost his parents, falls under the influence of bandits looking for hidden treasure in the ruins of the estate. The boy, of course, will understand his new friends — and together with old friends will help the security officers to neutralize criminals.

On the Count's Ruins

1958

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia poster
5.6

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

1946

Belated Flowers poster
4.7

Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

Belated Flowers

1970

Belated Flowers poster
4.7

Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

Belated Flowers

1970

The Invasion poster
6.6

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his home has been taken by German troops, his daughter becomes involved in the anti-Axis resistance, and his son -- confined to a mental hospital -- escapes to fight the invading armies.

The Invasion

1945

No artwork available
5.0

Experimental collection. It began with a synchronized movie recording of a speech by Anatoly Lunacharsky, former People's Commissar of Education and Director of the Research Institute of Literature and Art, on the importance of sound cinema. Then came an hour-long movie "Five-Year Plan" - a documentary essay about the first five-year plan. Then - a small cartoon with newsreel elements "Tip-Top", the hero of which was making a round-the-world trip. By genre it was a political satire. Then there were recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's march from the play "Love for Three Oranges" and other musical numbers performed by a choir, solo singers, symphony and jazz orchestras, as well as actors from Sergei Obraztsov's puppet theater.

Sound Team Program No. 1

1930

Court of Honor poster
7.5

The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.

Court of Honor

1949

Jews on the Land poster
7.8

This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the land.

Jews on the Land

1927

Jews on the Land poster
7.8

This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the land.

Jews on the Land

1927

No artwork available
NR

Lost movie.

The Race for Moonshine

1924

Plan for Great Works poster
7.0

Soviet documentary film, widely regarded as the first Soviet sound film. The film's soundtrack was composed by Arseny Avraamov, who also acted as sound designer and sound editor.

Plan for Great Works

1930

Plan for Great Works poster
7.0

Soviet documentary film, widely regarded as the first Soviet sound film. The film's soundtrack was composed by Arseny Avraamov, who also acted as sound designer and sound editor.

Plan for Great Works

1930

Our Girls poster
10.0

One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who deals with two paratroopers seeking shelter.

Our Girls

1942

The Mystery of the Eternal Night poster
4.8

At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an explosion occurred, as a result the underwater vegetation started to grow rapidly in size and a part of the coast was flooded by a tsunami.

The Mystery of the Eternal Night

1956

The Bay of Death poster
6.2

A machinist on a Navy ship has two sons, both bolcheviks. When the revolution comes the Tsarist police captures the machinist to put pressure on his sons.

The Bay of Death

1926

Squadron No. 5 poster
9.0

The action takes place against the backdrop of a looming war. Soviet intelligence intercepts an order from the high command of Nazi Germany to cross the Soviet border.

Squadron No. 5

1939

Heart Beats Again poster
7.2

A drama about the daily lives of doctors in a military hospital.

Heart Beats Again

1956

The Wind poster
8.0

During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.

The Wind

1926