Abram Room — Director (7)

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Our Girls (1942)
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other title: Наши девушки / Боевой киносборник «Наши девушки»
One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who deals with two paratroopers seeking shelter.

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Belated Flowers (1970)
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other title: 철 지난 꽃 / Цветы запоздалые …
Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

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A Severe Young Man (1935)
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Abram Room actor: Dmitri Dorlyak / Olga Zhiznyeva …
other title: 严格的青年 / Строгий юноша …
A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.

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再次跳动的心脏 (1956)
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阿布拉姆·卢姆 actor: 维亚切斯拉夫·吉洪诺夫 / 尼科莱·西蒙诺夫 …
other title: Сердце бьётся вновь
根据V的小说改编。迪亚吉列夫“戈卢别夫博士”。 这部电影致力于解决与医生的职责和荣誉、他对患者的责任、充分捍卫他观点的能力以及在必要时冒险拯救委托给您的生命等相关问题。 士兵巴拉绍夫在冰水中溺水时,他感染了肺炎,然后因心脏病的严重疾病而变得复杂。年轻的戈卢别夫医生做出了错误的诊断,治疗没有给出积极的结果。戈卢别夫意识到自己的错误,提供了手术,但医院主任医生对手术的不信任推迟了做出坚定决定的时刻,并危及患者的生命。 Подробнее на Кино-Театр.РУ

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The Ghost That Never Returns (1929)
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阿布拉姆·卢姆 actor: 鲍里斯·费迪南多夫
other title: 一去不复返的幽灵 / Привидение, которое не возвращается …
Like his famous Tretya meshchanskaya/ Bed and Sofa (1927), this 66 minute-long silent film by director Abram Room (1894-1976) is an existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle. The Ghost That Never Returns (1929) presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties. The film is set in an unnamed South American country. Jose Real is a labor leader who is sentenced to life in jail. But even though he is safely kept behind bars, the guards are not satisfied and look for an opportunity to get rid of him. So they plot to assassinate him by staging an escape. As someone who has already served ten years, Jose is eligible for a day of liberty in order to visit his family. The prison officials plan to send him on this visit and ensure that he is killed during that day. In order to achieve their goal they send an experienced executor to trail Jose. The rest of the film consists of convoluted series of moves and chases amidst impressively rugged landscapes, at the end of which Jose manages to get back home (in spite all obstacles), to see his little son and his wife, and to reconnect with his fellow-communists who are about to begin a strike. Not a single man who has been sent off to such a day of freedom has ever returned to prison, usually because he would have been killed by the guards. But not Jose — he does not return either, but it is because he turns into a phantom of liberty. Protected by his comrades, he comes to lead the looming strike. The depiction of South American life and landscape in the film appears convincing. There are some avant garde sets representing the prison, reminiscent of sets used by Fritz Lang in Metropolis (I thought of links to Fritz Lang’s aesthetics of the time more than once while watching the film). The film is based on the writing of Henri Barbusse (1873-1935), a French writer who had moved to Russia in 1918 and who closely sympathized with the Bolsheviks (he also authored biopics on Trotsky and Stalin). There is proficient camera work (by Dmitri Feldman who later on worked primarily in the context of Armenian and Georgian cinema), at moments reminiscent to the visual experiments of Vertov just a few years earlier, using multiplication of the image to create psychologically tense effect. The original music score (by A. Shenshin) is truly impressive.