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Elizaveta Svilova
Born September 5, 1900 · Moscow, USSR
Died November 11, 1975 · aged 75
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова, rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in …
Known For
Man with a Movie Camera · 1929Man with a Movie Camera
★ 7.81929
MovieDocumentary
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
The Fall of Berlin · 1945The Fall of Berlin
★ 4.81945
MovieDocumentaryWar
A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film records the destruction of Berlin and the symbolic collapse of Hitler’s regime, standing as both a historical chronicle and a work of Soviet wartime cinema.
Nuremberg Trials · 1946Nuremberg Trials
★ 5.71946
MovieDocumentary
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.
Lluvia de jaulas · 2019Lluvia de jaulas
★ 6.12019
MovieDocumentary
Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead. A garden of amputated flowers, which with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance.
Three Songs About Lenin · 1934Three Songs About Lenin
★ 6.11934
MovieDocumentary
Three episodes comprise three songs sung by anonymous Soviet peoples about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Three Heroines · 1938Three Heroines
★ 9.51938
MovieDocumentary
Follows the legendary female pilots Raskova, Osipenko, and Grisodubova in their failed but magnificent attempt to make the first nonstop trans-Siberian flight. Using documentary reenactments, Vertov depicts the flight, the crash, the rescue, and the women’s heroic return to Moscow, where crowds shower them with flowers, and leaders with speeches.
Kino-Eye · 1924Kino-Eye
★ 6.71924
MovieDocumentary
Promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centering on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to 'buy from the cooperative' as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
A Sixth Part of the World · 1926A Sixth Part of the World
★ 6.71926
MovieDocumentary
Through the travelogue format, the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, it is in fact a call for unification in order to build a 'complete socialist society'.
