Mikhail Romm. Confession of a Director (1985)

Photographs by M.I. Romm.

Photograph of Romm recording his memories on a cassette recorder.

General view of Romm's dacha.

Rain, water pouring from the roof.

Porch of the dacha, rain pouring.

The dog is sitting in the kennel.

Porch of the dacha.

View of the garden from the door of the house.

General view of the house, raining.

Photograph of Romm on the mantelpiece, the tape recorder is spinning.

Telephone, ashtray with cigarette butts, tape recorders, card solitaire on the table, workbench with tools, paintings on the wall.

Photograph of Romm against the background of paintings.

Paintings on the wall.

Interior of the house.

Grape leaves in the rain.

Photograph of Romm.

Grape leaves in the rain.

The tape recorder is spinning.

Photograph of Romm with a cigarette in his hand.

The tape recorder is spinning.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: horse-drawn carriages passing by.

A steamship with passengers on board sailing away.

People on the platform meeting a passenger train.

A photograph of Romm as a child with his mother.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: horse-drawn carriages passing by.

A car and horse racing at the hippodrome.

A photograph of Romm as a child.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: planes taking off from the airfield.

An aircraft of an original design trying to take off.

A photograph of Romm as a child.

Stills from an old feature film.

A photograph of Romm in 1915 with his sister.

Newsreel from the 1910s: one of the first helicopters trying to take off.

Testing a "walking" car.

Stills from old feature silent films.

Stills from a film starring Max Linder.

A photograph of Romm in his youth.

Photographs of Romm's sculptures.

Drawings made by Romm.

Romm's manuscript.

Stills from old films.

Excerpts from the feature film "Pyshka".

A photograph of a working moment during the filming of the film "Pyshka".

Excerpts from the movie "Pyshka".

Excerpts from the film "Pyshka".

Still from the film "Thirteen".

Photos of working moments during the filming of the film "Thirteen".

Excerpts from the film "Thirteen", battle, death of the commander, negotiations, actor Fayt A. as Colonel Skuratov.

Photos of Romm's wedding.

Photos of Romm with his wife and dog.

Photo of Romm playing solitaire.

Photos of Romm with his wife at different times.

Photos of Romm giving a lecture to students.

Photos of Romm's father, Ilya Maksimovich.

Photos of Romm (simultaneously with Romm's recollections of his joint work with S.M. Eisenstein).

An issue of the magazine "Hard Labor and Exile".

Article by M. Frumkin "In Memory of I.M. Romm", published in the magazine, other articles about I.M. Romm.

Photographs of S.M. Eisenstein in different years.

A friendly caricature of Romm.

A photograph of the art studio where Eisenstein studied in his youth.

Photographs of Eisenstein in the sculpture studio.

Romm recalls working with Eisenstein.

A photograph of Eisenstein.

Shelves with books, photographs, film posters in the Eisenstein museum-apartment.

Photographs of Eisenstein and Romm during preparation for the filming of "Ivan the Terrible".

A photograph of Eisenstein at the working moment of filming.

Romm as the queen.

A photograph of Romm's wife above his desk.

Photographs of Lenin, books and manuscripts on his desk.

Photographs of Romm with books.

Romm talks about working on films about Lenin.

Photographs of Romm and actor B.V. Shchukin in Lenin makeup during work on the film "Lenin in October".

Romm talks about working on the film "Lenin in October".

Portrait of B.V. Shchukin without makeup.

Romm continues his story.

Stills from the film "Lenin in October".

Romm continues his story about working on the film "Lenin in October".

Romm M.I. talks about working on the film "Lenin in October".

Excerpts from the feature film "Lenin in October", with the participation of actors Shchukin and Okhlopkov, a scene of Lenin's speech at the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

A photograph of Romm during working moments of the filming of the film "Lenin in October".

Excerpts from the film "Lenin in October".

A photograph of Romm during the filming of the film.

Photos of working moments of the filming of the film "Lenin in 1918".

Excerpts from the film "Lenin in 1918".

A photograph of Kalinin M.I. presenting Romm with the Order of Lenin in 1938. A photograph of Romm.

Photos of Romm during the work on the film "Nine Days of One Year".

Static shots from the films "Secret Mission", "Murder on Dante Street", "The Russian Question", "Admiral Ushakov".

Photos of Romm.

Sculpture on Romm's desk.

Desk and study at Romm's dacha.

Sheet of paper covered with writing by Romm.

Sheet of paper, pen, glasses on the desk, general view of the desk.

Photos of Romm during the filming of the movie "Nine Days of One Year".

Actor Batalov A.V. talks about his collaboration with Romm and Skuybin.

Photo of one of the working moments of the filming of the movie "Nine Days of One Year".

Batalov continues his story about his collaboration with Romm.

Photo of one of the working moments of the filming of the movie "Nine Days of One Year".

Batalov continues his story.

Excerpt from the movie "Nine Days of One Year".

Smoktunovsky I.M. talks about his collaboration with Romm.

Photo of Eisenstein S.M. Smoktunovsky continues his story.

Photo of one of the working moments of the filming of the movie "Nine Days of One Year".

Excerpt from the movie "Nine Days of One Year" with the participation of Batalov and Smoktunovsky.

An excerpt from the film "Nine Days of One Year".

Romm during a lesson with students.

Film director G. N. Chukhrai narrates.

Photograph of Romm and Chukhrai.

Chukhrai continues the story.

Photographs by film director and actor V. M. Shukshin.

Photograph of Romm examining photographic documents on Nazi crimes.

Photographs of victims of German fascists in the occupied territories.

Photographs of Romm during the work on the film "Ordinary Fascism".

Newsreel from 1941-1942: German soldiers marching.

Photographs of German soldiers.

Photographs of the atrocities of the German fascist executioners. (Stills from the film "Ordinary Fascism").

Photographs of the Lvov Jewish pogrom (from the film "Ordinary Fascism").

Photographs of a German concentration camp, a train that brought prisoners, queues at the crematorium.

Stills from the film "Ordinary Fascism" (photographs of the concentration camp commandant's family, corpses of executed prisoners).

Newsreel from the 1930s: girls greet Hitler.

Hitler responds to greetings from the podium.

Film director S. Kulish recalls working with Romm.

Photographs of Romm during the work on the film "Ordinary Fascism", reading the narration.

German film director G. Berlinghaus talks about the film "Ordinary Fascism".

Photograph of Romm.

Berlinghaus continues speaking.

Romm walks down the street of a European city.

Photographs of Romm with a newspaper in his hands on a city street.

A book in Romm's hands.

Romm walks down a city street and leafs through a book.

Romm walks past shopping arcades.

Newsreel from 1945: Soviet soldiers with a banner climb the steps of the Reichstag.

A shell-shocked German artilleryman near a broken gun.

View of destroyed city blocks (top).

Soviet soldiers throw captured fascist banners at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum during the Victory Parade.

Meeting of soldiers returning from the war in the USSR, USA, Europe.

People dancing on the streets of Paris.

Explosion of a nuclear bomb during testing (stills from the film "Ordinary Fascism").

People walking down a city street.

Romm walking down the street.

People on the street.

Photograph of a pregnant woman.

Stills from the film "Ordinary Fascism": training of American Marines.

Photograph of NATO soldiers.

Newsreel from 1960-1963: rally of Nazi veterans.

Nazis marching in parade.

Photograph of Romm.

Photographs of neo-Nazi events in Europe and neo-Nazi leaders.

Newsreel from the early 1960s: Nazi veterans marching in parade.

Marchers carry Nazi flags and torches.

Romm lights a cigarette on a city street.

Children run out of school.

Children's faces.

Children talk about peace, their dreams (stills from the film "And Still I Believe").

Photographs of Romm with children.

General view of Romm's dacha, it is raining.

Portrait of Romm on the mantelpiece, tape recorder.

Photographs of Romm.