Roman Karmen

Великая Отечественная

Roman Karmen

This communist history film recalls the heroism of Soviet soldiers fighting the Nazis in World War II. Forty of the 236 cameramen used for the feature were killed during their mission filming the Red Army.

Nuremberg : des images pour l'histoire

Jean-Christophe Klotz

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Sandra Schulberg

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.

Grenada, Grenada, Grenada moya

Roman Karmen

Cinerama's Russian Adventure

Oleg Lebedev, Roman Karmen

Bing Crosby

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets, a spring carnival, the seaside resorts on the Black Sea, a trip down the Voga River, skiers, a troika racing along a snow-covered road, a helicopter view of the North Pole, an Antarctic whale hunt, the capture of a wild boar in the Moyun-Kum of Central Asia, a race by reindeer-drawn sleds, divers in the Sea of Okhotsk, battling an octopus, the capture of antelopes, rafting logs down the Tisza River, and the development of new towns in Siberia. Other scenes include a visit to the Moscow Circus, where the renowned clown Oleg Popov performs, the dancing of the Moiseyev and Piatnitsky companies, and excerpts from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.

Суд народов

Elizaveta Svilova, Roman Karmen

Francis Biddle, Karl Dönitz

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring.

Ispaniya

Roman Karmen, Esfir Shub

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.

День нового мира

Roman Karmen, Mikhail Slutsky

Пылающий континент

Roman Karmen

Salvador Allende

Roman Karmen's documentary on the political turmoil of 1970s Latin America.

Moskva–Karakum–Moskva

Eduard Tisse, Roman Karmen

Towarisch Berlin

Roman Karmen

Ernst Busch

Documentary about East Berlin.

Shqipëria

Roman Karmen

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came to power in 1944. The film is especially memorable since it’s missing much of the heavy socialist realism that marked Albanian doc making. Shortly after he completed the film, Karmen set off for Berlin to shoot the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Повесть о нефтяниках Каспия

Roman Karmen

Leonid Khmara, Rashid Behbudov

A story of the exploits carried out by the oil technicians of Baku for the exploitation of the black gold deposit of the Caspian Sea.

K Sobytijam v Ispanii

Roman Karmen

In China

Roman Karmen, Mikhail Slutsky

Directed by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky.