Kira Muratova
Kira Georgievna Muratova (Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova; 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018; Soroca – Odesa) was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style.
Muratova's films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union, yet still Muratova managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in contemporary Cinema of Ukraine and Russian cinema and was able to build a very successful film career from 1960s onwards. She is People's Artist of Ukraine(1989); Academician of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (1997). Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1993) (in List of laureates at 1993 - № 12); Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2002). Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios.
Her work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making.'
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Movies (28)
What Beat You Nothing
2021 · Self (archive footage)
…in Memory of the Master
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Furtively About Kira
2019 · Archive footage
Eternal Homecoming
2013 · Director, Screenplay
Melody for a Street Organ
2009 · Director, Writer
Two in One
2007 · Director
Dummy
2007 · Director
The Tuner
2005 · Director, Writer
The Certificate
2005 · Director
Kira
2003 · Self
Chekhovian Motifs
2002 · Director, Screenplay
Second Class Citizens
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Letter to America
1999 · Director
Three Stories
1997 · Director
Passions
1994 · Director, Screenplay
The Sentimental Policeman
1992 · Director, Screenplay
The Asthenic Syndrome
1989 · Director, Writer
The Garden of Desires
1988 · Sorceress
I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman
1988
Change of Fate
1987 · Director, Writer
Among Grey Stones
1983 · Director, Screenplay
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
1980 · Director, Screenplay
The Long Farewell
1971 · Director
Dangerous Tour
1969 · Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner
Brief Encounters
1967 · Valentina Ivanovna, Director, Screenplay
Our Honest Bread
1964 · Director
By the Ravine
1962 · Director, Screenplay
Spring Rain
1958 · Director, Writer
TV shows (0)
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