Mikhail Romm

Directing

Birthday

1901/01/24

Day of death

1971/11/01 (70 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Irkutsk, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Also know as

Mikhail Romm, Mikhail Ilyich Romm, M.I. Romm, M. Romm, Michail Romm, Михаил Ильич Ромм, Michail Iljitsch Romm

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...Read more