Mikhail Romm
Director
Mikhail Romm (1901-1971) was one of the most influential directors and film teachers in the Soviet Union’s history. His career began in silent film in 1934 and would go on to incorporate some of the greatest critical and commercial successes of Soviet arthouse cinema: from the nuclear physics drama Nine Days in One Year to the groundbreaking collage documentary Ordinary Fascism, which explored the banality of Nazi terror and was seen by a record 40 million viewers on release. Romm was also an influential pedagogue at the Mosfilm studio, where he taught many of Soviet film’s most renowned auteurs, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Larisa Shepitko, and others.
