Mikhail Romm

Mikhail Romm

ActorWriterDirectorEditorProducer Jan 24 (died age 70) Irkutsk, Russian Empire [now Russia] 1932–2019 (87 year career)
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Biography

Mikhail Ilych Romm (Russian: Михаил Ильич Ромм; 24 January [O.S. 11 January] 1901 – 1 November 1971) was a Soviet film director. He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1918 - 1921, he served in the Red Army during the Russian civil war, first as a signalman and later rising to the rank of inspector of a Special Commissio…

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