Elizaveta Svilova

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1900-09-05 (75 years old)

Deathday

1975-11-11

Place of Birth

Moscow, USSR

Elizaveta Svilova

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).

Acting

1966

1929

Man with a Movie Camera

as Woman Editing Film (uncredited)

2018

After the Facts

as Herself

Production

1938

1938

Three Heroines

as Director

2019

1945

Auschwitz

as Director

1945

Auschwitz

as Writer

1936

Milan Fair

as Director

1927

Tunguses

as Director

1937

1942

1923

1926

A Sixth Part of the World

as Assistant Director

1926

A Sixth Part of the World

as Assistant Editor

1934

Three Songs About Lenin

as Assistant Director

1927

Bukhara

as Director

1922

1923

1930

Enthusiasm

as Assistant Director

1928

The Eleventh Year

as Assistant Director

1924

Kino Eye

as Editor

1946

Nuremberg Trials

as Director

1953

1926

Stride, Soviet!

as Assistant Director

1966

World Without a Game

as Script Consultant

1946

Parade of Youth

as Director

1945

1945

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