Woman with an Editing Bench (2016)

08/01/2016 (AU) • History, Drama • 15m

Overview

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

Woman with an Editing Bench (2016)

08/01/2016 (AU) • 15m

History, Drama

Overview

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

Top Billed Cast

Leeanna Walsman

Elizaveta Svilova

Richard James Allen

Dziga Vertov

Boris Shumyatsky

Baker

Ivan K. Germano

Vertov's cameraman

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

soviet union

biography

based on true story

filmmaking

russian history

censorship

film editor

woman director

stalinism

1930s

cinema history

women in film

soviet union history

film censorship

short film

women's history

ussr

female filmmaker

australian

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