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Roman Karmen

Soviet cameraman and film director (1906-1978) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 71

Roman Lazarevich Karmen was a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue, and publicist.

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A life in dates

1978Died28 April 1978The Unknown WarSeries, 1978Director, Writer1976Distant and Close SkiesFilm, Narrator1975Grenada, Grenada, My GrenadaFilm, Director1969Comrade BerlinFilm, Director, Writer1965The Great Patriotic WarFilm, Director, Writer1961Island AblazedFilm, Director, Writer1959Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSRAwardSea ConquerorsFilm, 1959Director, Writer1955VietnamFilm, Director, Writer1946Nuremberg TrialsFilm, Director1943Leningrad in StruggleFilm, Director1941China Is FightingFilm, Director1939SpainFilm, Director1933Moskva-Karakum-MoskvaFilm, Director1906Born17 November 1906

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Filmography 30

55 credits on file

Television 1

Media & music

Photos 2

Karmen on a 2026 stamp of RussiaKarmen on a 2026 stamp of Russia

Awards

Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR1959
Stalin Prize
USSR State Prize
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Lenin Prize
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
National Prize of East Germany
Labor Order
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree
Stalin Prize, 3rd degree

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1978 · aged 71

In the same film or series as Roman

Sergey SmirnovAlso in The Great Patriotic War (1965)Esfir ShubAlso in Spain (1939)Eduard TisseAlso in Moskva-Karakum-Moskva (1933)Yelizaveta Ignatevna SvilovaAlso in Nuremberg Trials (1946)Lev KassilAlso in Our Cinema (1940)Mikheil ChiaureliAlso in Our Cinema (1940)