Movies: Mikhail Romm

Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried....

In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people....

A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers....

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to hap...

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operat...

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917....

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII....

Two preschoolers decided that at night the streetcars go somewhere to rest and if you get on a streetcar late at night, you can go to another city....

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema....

An endemic fever arose in the large Siberian construction area. Four scientists involved in the development of a vaccine against this disease, and whose laboratory was threatened with closure, are sent to the center of the outbreak. They manage to fi...

Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is ...

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War....

Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Leonov. The famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin...

Documentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein....

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station...

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The fil...

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunatel...

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wif...

The Soviet intelligence officer Martha Shirke honorably fulfills the command mission, but the Nazis expose her....

The movie is set in the early 30s in a fictional capitalist country. The economic crisis throws three friends - young female workers - out on the street. Their dreams of a prosperous life are shattered, and each begins her own difficult journey....