Roman Karmen

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Soviet cameraman and film director

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Roman Lazarevich Karmen (28 April 1978, born Efraim Leyzorovich Korenman) was a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue, and publicist. ; insofar as his propaganda is concerned, he could be considered USSR's equivalent to Leni Riefenstahl, though the comparison is by no means absolute.

Biography

Karmen was born to a Jewish family in Odessa. His father was the writer (real name Leyzor Korenman) and his mother was the translator Dina Leypuner.

Career

Karmen was a communist.

He documented the Spanish Civil War. Karmen also documented the battles for Moscow and Leningrad in World War II, the First Indochina War, and the rise of communism in Southeast Asia in the 1950s and in South America during the 1960s.

Karmen was also granted personal access to the emergence of communist leaders like Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh and Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende.

Karmen went to Yan'an in 1939, where he met Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders and filmed during May and June 1939.

Style

Karmen's documentary methods were both influential and controversial; his renowned technical ability captured the emotion of war and the repetition of key shots and framings between film projects became a hallmark, but he would often blur the lines of cinéma vérité by restaging key battles, including the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (, 1942), the Viet Minh victory at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (, 1955), and the 1956 landing in Cuba of militants led by Fidel Castro, re-enacted as a first person documentary.

In 2001, French documentary directors Dominique Chapuis and Patrick Barbéris produced a 90-minute film, titled Roman Karmen: A Cineast In The Revolution's Service. The following year Barbéris (his co-author Chapuis had died in late 2001) published the portrait Roman Karmen, A Red Legend.

Filmography

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Karmenfakebunker.jpg" caption="De Castries' bunker]] in ''Вьетнам'', 1955"] ::

Awards

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References

References

  1. Peter Rollberg. (2009). "Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema". Rowman & Littlefield.
  2. (1978-04-30). "Roman Karmen, 71; A Top Film Maker In the Soviet Union". The New York Times.
  3. Qian, Ying. (2024). "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China". [[Columbia University Press]].
  4. [http://www.artepro.com/programmes/58707/presentation.htm ''Roman Karmen, un cinéaste au service de la révolution''], Dominique Chapuis & Patrick Barbéris, Kuiv Productions / Arte France, 2001 {{Webarchive. link. (2007-09-14)
  5. (2002-02-25). "Karmen, un roman.".
  6. [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/2020523833 ''Roman Karmen, une Légende Rouge''], Dominique Chapuis & Patrick Barbéris, Seuil, 12 October 2002

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