Crombie Film is the production banner of British film-maker Robert Crombie.
Robert is the writer and director of the hit romantic drama Sappho,and the writer and creative director of the 2D animation feature The Good Soldier - which will premiere in English later this year.
He is also a writer and producer on the MGM distributed action movie Soldiers of Fortune, starring Christian Slater, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, James Cromwell & Colm Meaney, and the director of the “woman in peril” thriller White Swan, starring Christian Slater, Cole Hauser & Angus MacFadyen, and distributed by Lionsgate. His first feature was an ultra-low budget kids’ flick for the late Roger Corman starring 3-time Mr. Universe Michael O’Hearn.
Robert was the CEO of the production services company Yalta-Film and its associated film equipment rental company (and Arri rental partner) ArtLite. Both were located in Crimea, when Crimea was still de facto part of Ukraine, and were highly successful. Unfortunately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 ended them - somewhat abruptly.
Prior to that Robert was the director and/or producer of well over 100 TV commercials. These were mostly shot in Russia & Eastern Europe, largely for multinational FMCG clients like Proctor&Gamble, Mars/Masterfoods, Nestle, McDonalds, Shell etc. Amongst other awards, his Eisenstein inspired spot for August Beer won a pan-European Epica in 1995.
Robert is also the author of the novels Cuba Libre and The Big Pretend, and of the short story collections The Book of Fantastical Animals (for children) and A Dog In Front Of The World (for adults). Additionally, he has written a rather large number of unproduced screenplays and film and TV treatments - some optioned, some not. He is also the co-creator of the board game Human.
Robert is currently working on completing The Good Soldier for its cinema premiere in 2026, and prepping a high-brow horror feature slated for production in early 2027 (no further details yet - sorry!). He also shoots a low-fi no-budget YouTube TV series in his living room, as well as working on ads, industrial videos and for the Arts Council of England. Finally, he keeps a watchful eye on the rapid development of AI film-making tools - for, like it or not, they can not be ignored.
Sappho
Sappho is a provocative love story set in the 1920s. Millionaire’s daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos with her new husband Phil. She meets an archaeologist’s daughter, Helene, and falls in love with her. At the same time, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of her namesake, the ancient Greek poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the “lesbian” in Lesbos. However, our modern-day Sappho doesn’t realise how the ancient Sappho’s story ends...
Sappho was a runaway success on its cinema release in Ukraine in 2008, with powerful evangelical leaders organising a nationwide petition against the movie and branding it as “the worst expression of Western freedom,” resulting in packed out cinemas, death threats against the director, and a tripling of the box office record for a locally-produced movie. Sappho also won the “Golden Aphrodite” at the Cyprus International Film Festival, and it was released theatrically in ten countries. It has more or less sold out worldwide on DVD/TV and continues to do well on VOD. Sappho is currently banned in Putin’s Russia due to its sympathetic treatment of LGBTQ themes. A “Director’s Cut” was released in 2024.
The Good Soldier
From war-torn Ukraine, a film about the horrors of war and a simple soldier’s struggle to survive…
Based on Jaroslav Hasek’s famous comic tale of a common soldier caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine, The Good Soldier is a hand-drawn 2D animation feature film.
Josef Svejk, a dealer in “second-hand” dogs, is called up to fight in World War One. Once in the army the “idiotic” good soldier is imprisoned, certified insane, starved half to death, lost at cards, and almost hanged as he makes his reluctant way towards the front line and almost certain death. However, the Good Soldier has one final triumphant “idiocy” in reserve.
The Good Soldier is a heart-warming Christmas movie for older children and adults alike. Any similarities between the events in the film and our modern world is entirely accidental.
A new English version of The Good Soldier will premiere later this year.
Soldiers of Fortune
A group of bored and risk-addicted billionaires go to war for kicks and thrills, but they get far more than they bargained for when they are hunted down themselves...
Soldiers Of Fortune is an action adventure flick with an all-star cast led by Christian Slater, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, Dominic Monaghan, Colm Meaney, Freddy Rodrigues and James Cromwell. Soldiers of Fortune is a Crombie Film / Most Films production in association with Globus-Film. Soldiers of Fortune was released theatrically in USA in August 2012, taking over $14 million on VOD/DVD. It is distributed in English-language markets by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who have stated their interest in distributing a sequel.
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