Film & TV
Konstantin Bromberg
1935–2020 · film director
Soviet director of the beloved children's film The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979), who spent his last years in metro Detroit and is buried in Livonia.
- Born
Kharkiv, Ukraine- Died
Detroit, Michigan
aged 84- Detroit years
- 2000s–2020
- Field
- Film & TV
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Bromberg was born in Kharkiv and became one of the Soviet Union's best-known directors of children's and musical films. His three-part television film The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979), about a robot boy who trades places with the schoolboy he was modeled on, won the USSR State Prize in 1982, and its songs are still known across the former Soviet bloc, where the film was widely shown. He also directed the New Year musical comedy Charodei (1982). He was named an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1996. Late in life he emigrated to the United States and settled in the Detroit area, home to a sizable Russian-speaking community in Southfield and the northwest suburbs. He died in 2020 and is buried at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia.
Highlights
- Directed The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979)
- USSR State Prize (1982)
- Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1996)
- Buried at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 1
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Buried here · 2020
Adat Shalom Memorial Park
Jewish cemetery in Livonia, dedicated in 1941 as Northwest Hebrew Memorial Park, where Bromberg is buried.