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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Lazarevich and the family name is Karmen.
Roman Karmen
Роман Кармен
Karmen in 1975
BornEfraim Leyzorovich Korenman
30 November [O.S. 17 November] 1906
Odesa, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
Died28 April 1978(1978-04-28) (aged 71)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupations

Roman Lazarevich Karmen (30 November [O.S. 17 November] 1906 – 28 April 1978, born Efraim Leyzorovich Korenman) was a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue, and publicist.

Biography

Karmen was born to a Jewish family in Odessa. His father was the writer Lazar Karmen [uk] (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 (Leningrad in Combat [ru], 1942), the Viet Minh victory at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam [ru], 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

De Castries' bunker in Вьетнам, 1955

See also

Notes

    • Russian: Роман Лазаревич Кармен, romanized: Roman Lazarevich Karmen
    • Ukrainian: Роман Лазарович Кармен, romanized: Roman Lazarovych Karmen
  2. Russian: Эфраим Лейзорович Коренман, romanized: Efraim Leyzorovich Korenman

References

  1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 324–326. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ Qian, Ying (2024). Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231204477.
  3. Roman Karmen, un cinéaste au service de la révolution, Dominique Chapuis & Patrick Barbéris, Kuiv Productions / Arte France, 2001 Archived 2007-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Roman Karmen, une Légende Rouge, Dominique Chapuis & Patrick Barbéris, Seuil, 12 October 2002

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