Joseph N. Ermolieff
Joseph N. Ermolieff (1889–1962) was a Russian-born film producer.
Ermolieff was a prominent figure in early Russian cinema during the Imperial era, owning large studios in Yalta and Moscow.
He fled to France following the Russian Revolution and became an established producer there, founding the company Films Albatros.
As well as Paris he also worked at the Emelka Studios in Munich.
In 1936 he enjoyed a major international success with "The Czar's Courier", and he moved to the United States the following year planning to remake the film in English.
He settled in America and became a citizen in 1942, but struggled to establish himself in Hollywood despite producing occasional films such as "Outpost in Morocco" (1949) and "Fort Algiers" (1953).
In 1944 he produced a Mexican version of "Michael Strogoff" (1944).
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Taras Bulba (1924 film)
Taras Bulba is a 1924 German silent adventure film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky and Joseph N. Ermolieff and starring J.N. Douvan-Tarzow, Oscar Marion and Clementine Plessner.
It is based on the short story "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol, and made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.
It was one of several Russian-themed films that exiled producer Ermolieff made in Munich during the 1920s.
The film's art direction was by Kurt Dürnhöfer and Willy Reiber.
The Rebel Son
The Rebel Son, The Barbarian and the Lady or The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba is a 1938 British film, notable as the first film appearance of Patricia Roc.
It is a re-working by Alexander Korda of Granowski's 1935 French film adaptation of the Ukrainian novel" Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol, set in the 17th century Ukraine.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Vladimir Medar
Vladimir Medar( 1923–1978) was a Croatian film and television actor.
He played the title role in the 1962 Italian adventure film Taras Bulba, the Cossack".
Taras Bulba, the Cossack
Taras Bulba, the Cossack( Italian: Taras Bulba, il cosacco) is a 1962 Italian historical adventure film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Vladimir Medar, Jean- François Poron and Fosco Giachetti.
It received an American release in 1970 under the title The Tartars.
Based on the 1835 novel of the same title by Nikolay Gogol, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version" Taras Bulba".
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Taras Bulba (2009 film)
Taras Bulba is a historical drama film, based on the novel" Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol.
The movie was filmed on different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets- Podilsky as well as in Poland.
The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol ’s bicentennial.
The author's edition of 1842( considered more pro-Russian), expanded and rewritten( into the text most readers know), was used for the film.
The film DVD was released in the United States under the alternate title" The Conqueror" in 2010, and in the UK in 2011 as" Iron& Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba".

Question: Where was the director of film Taras Bulba (1924 Film) born?
Answer: Moscow