Elizaveta Svilova

Elizaveta Svilova

Actor · Director · Writer

Moscow, USSR
September 5, 1900

Biography

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 and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).

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Representative Works

Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera
7.8
/ Russian
Three Heroines
Three Heroines
9.5
/ Russian
Kino Eye
Kino Eye
6.7
/ Russian
The Eleventh Year
The Eleventh Year
5.9
/ Russian
Stride, Soviet!
Stride, Soviet!
6.3
/ Russian
Lluvia de jaulas
Lluvia de jaulas
6.1
/ Spanish
A Sixth Part of the World
A Sixth Part of the World
6.6
/ Russian
World Without a Game
World Without a Game
No Rating Yet
/ Russian
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Trials
5.7
/ Russian
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Kino-Pravda No. 7
5.7
/ Russian
After the Facts
After the Facts
No Rating Yet
/ English
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Kino-Pravda No. 14
5.6
/ Russian

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Man with a Movie Camera
1929Winner

Best Performance

Man with a Movie Camera

Three Heroines
1938Winner

Best Writing

Three Heroines

Kino Eye
1924Nominee

Best Performance

Kino Eye

Career Highlights

The Eleventh Year
1928Highlight

Best Director

The Eleventh Year

Stride, Soviet!
1926Highlight

Best Director

Stride, Soviet!

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