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Fridrih Markovich Ermler
Фридрих Эрмлер
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13 May 1898 - 12 July 1967
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Ermler Friedrich Markovich, a famous Soviet director, screenwriter and actor, as well as People's Artist of the USSR, was born on May 13, 1898 in St. Petersburg. The beginning of his career is often compared with the pre-kinematographic biography of V.I. Pudovkin, who also entered the arena of Soviet cinema from the people. Friedrich Ermler was a member of the First World War and later the Civil War. During these years he served in the Red Army and was a member of the CPSU(B). Later, in 1923-1924,
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Ermler Friedrich Markovich, a famous Soviet director, screenwriter and actor, as well as People's Artist of the USSR, was born on May 13, 1898 in St. Petersburg. The beginning of his career is often compared with the pre-kinematographic biography of V.I. Pudovkin, who also entered the arena of Soviet cinema from the people. Friedrich Ermler was a member of the First World War and later the Civil War. During these years he served in the Red Army and was a member of the CPSU(B). Later, in 1923-1924, Ermler began training at the acting department of the Institute of Screen Arts. Then he first appeared before the audience in the films “Red Partisans” and “Tea”. Since 1924, Ermler began work at the film studio Sovkino and, together with E. Johannson, organized the creative association KEM. In 1931, the future famous director graduated from the Film Academy.
As Friedrich Ermler noted, he was in love with cinema from childhood, and gradually departing from his duties as a filmmaker, he became fully engaged in filmmaking. That is why his works brought new, previously unknown qualities to the culture of the twenties: knowledge of the life of ordinary people, party determination, psychological accuracy of portraits of heroes.
Hermler shot his first films together with aspiring director E. Johannson. “Children of the Storm” and “Katka – Paper Ranet” were created by the efforts of “KEM”. The largest event in the career of the master of Soviet cinema was the film “Paris shoemaker”, a journalistic work about the life of young people and their problems.
During his years, Friedrich Ermler made a lot of films. Among them is "House in the snowdrifts" (1928),
"Fragment of the Empire" (1929), The Great Citizen (1939), She Defends the Motherland (1943), The Great Break (1945), Before the Judgment of History (1965) and many other films. All of them are united by the same qualities – psychological imagery of heroes, appeal to socially relevant problems, among which the most acute, according to Ermler, are issues of morality, youth behavior and manifestations of bureaucracy in Komsomol organizations. Friedrich Markovic died on July 12, 1967. /