Yelizaveta Svilova

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизавета Игнатьевна Свилова) (5 September 1900 - 11 November 1975) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera. She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."

Selected works

• Kino-Pravda [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
• Cinema Eye [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
• A Sixth Part of the World [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Forward, Soviet! [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!) 1926 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• The Oath of Youth [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
• The Eleventh Year [Russian:Одиннадцатый or Odinnadtsatyi) 1928 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Man with a Movie Camera [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
• Enthusiam [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Three Songs of Lenin [Russian: Три песни о Ленине, Tri pesni o Lenine] (1934) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• The Fall of Berlin [Russian: Берлин] (1945) - Director
• Parade of Youth [Russian: Парад молодости or Parad molodosti] (1946) - Director
• Nuremberg Trials [Russian: Суд народов or Sud narodov] (1947) - Director

External links

• Yelizaveta Svilova at IMDb
• Yelizaveta Svilova at Find a Grave