Ermler Friedrich Markovich (1898-1967)

Ermler Friedrich Markovich (real surname and name: Breslav Vladimir Markovich) (1898, Rēzekne, Vitebsk Governorate — 1967, Leningrad) — film director. Participant in the Civil War.
In 1923–24, studied at the acting faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Screen Arts. Appeared in minor roles (“Red Partisans,” “Tea,” both 1924). Worked in the scenario department of the film studio “Sovkino.” Organiser of KEM (Film Experimental Workshop). Director at “Lenfilm.” Debuted with the eccentric comedy “Scarlet Fever” (1924).
In 1926, co-directed with E. Johanson “Children of the Storm” and “Katka Paper Raneta.”
In 1928, filmed Ye.M. Zamyatin's story “The Cave” (film “A House in the Snowdrifts”).
Most notable films: “The Paris Cobbler” (1928), “Fragment of an Empire” (1929), “Counterplan” (1932, co-dir. with S.I. Yutkevich), “Peasants” (1935, prize at the 1st International Film Festival in Moscow), “The Great Citizen” (1938–39), “She Defends the Motherland” (1943), “The Great Turning Point” (1946, Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival), “An Unfinished Story” (1955). E.'s last work — the documentary “Before the Court of History” (1965) — is a distinctive monologue of V. Shulgin, a long-term prisoner of Soviet camps turned emigrant.
People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Stalin Prize (1941, 1946 — twice, 1951).

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