NAME OF THE MOVIE: Ordinary Fascism
DIRECTED BY: Mikhail Romm
DURATION
130 mins
YEAR
1965
COUNTRY
USSR
LANGUAGE
Russian
SUBTITLES
English
A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central Russia. Romm later was avoiding any discussions regarding this painful memories, though he used his experience in the films about Lenin.
PERSONNEL
Cinematographer
German Lavrov
Editor
Valentina Kulagina, Mikhail Romm
Sound
Sergei Minervin, Boris Vengerovsky, Alemdar Karamanov
