Fridrikh Ermler

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1898-05-13

Deathday 1967-07-12 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Rezekne, Latvia

Also Known As Ф. Эрмлер

Fridrikh Ermler

Biography

Fridrikh Markovich Ermler[a] (13 May 1898 – 12 July 1967) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951). After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolshevists. Captured and tortured by the White army, he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War. From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy. In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies – the movie Vstrechny (The Counterplan). He also was one of the founders of the Creative Association KEM (together with E. Ioganson). In 1929-1931 Ermler studied at the Communist Academy and wrote for the newspaper Kino. He also became the chairman of the Russian Association of Revolutionary Filmmakers. In 1940 he became the director of the Lenfilm studio. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked at the Central United Film Studio of Feature Films (TsOKS) in Alma-Ata (now Kazakhfilm Film Studio). He died on 12 July 1967, in Komarovo. A memorial plaque was placed on the house in Leningrad where he lived from 1930 to 1962.

Known For

Director

1955
Unfinished Story

as Director

1953
Dinner Party

as Director

1950
The Great Force

as Director

1945
The Turning Point

as Director

1943
No Greater Love

as Director

1938
Great Citizen

as Director

1935
Peasants

as Director

1932
Shame

as Director

1929
1927
1927
1926
1924
Skarlatina

as Director

Writer

1953
Dinner Party

as Screenplay

1950
The Great Force

as Writer

1938
Great Citizen

as Writer

1935
Peasants

as Writer

1929

Actor

2024
Smile!

as Archive footage

1940
Our Cinema

as (archive footage)