Grigori Kromanov (8 March 1926 in
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
– 18 July 1984 in
Lahe,
Lääne-Virumaa) was an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
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theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
and
film director. He directed some of the best known Estonian movies, including ''
Viimne reliikvia
''Viimne reliikvia'' ( Estonian for ''The Last Relic''; russian: Последняя реликвия, translit=Poslyednyaya ryelikvya) is a 1969 Estonian-language Soviet film based on '' Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad'' ( Esto ...
'' (''The Last Relic'') and ''
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel''.
His 1976 film ''
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat ( et, Briljandid proletariaadi diktatuurile) is a 1975 Soviet Estonian action film directed by Grigori Kromanov and based on the novel of the same name by Yulian Semyonov.
Plot
1921. Chekist Gleb ...
'' is based on the homonymous 1974 detective novel by
Yulian Semyonov
Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov (russian: link=no, Юлиа́н Семёнович Семёнов, ), pen-name of Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres (russian: link=no, Ля́ндрес) (October 8, 1931 – September 15, 1993), was a Soviet and Russian writ ...
.
Фильмография писателя Юлиана Семёнова
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References
Further reading
* ''Director Grigori Kromanov: memoirs, articles, letters, diaries''. Compiled by Irena Veisaitė
Irena Veisaitė (9 January 1928 – 11 December 2020) was a Lithuanian theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist.
She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2012 for her contribution to cultural exchange between Germany and Lithuania.
L ...
-Kromanova (1995
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)
External links
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1926 births
1984 deaths
Estonian film directors
Soviet film directors
People from Tallinn
Estonian people of Russian descent
Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
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