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Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (13 May 189812 July 1967) was a Soviet Union film director, actor, and screenwriter.Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2025). 9781838718497, Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781838718497 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 . Captured and tortured by the White Movement, 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 – 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 Saint Petersburg where he lived from 1930 to 1962.
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