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- Birth nameVladimir Markovich Breslav
- Fridrikh Ermler was born on May 13, 1898 in Rechitsa, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rezekne, Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Great Force (1951), Great Citizen (1938) and The Turning Point (1945). He died on July 12, 1967 in Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Retrospective at the Moscow International Festival.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 310-315. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1956
- He took the name "Fridrikh Ermler" when serving in Germany as a spy in the Revolutionary Military Commissariat (of the Russian Bolsheviks) in 1918.
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