Elizaveta Svilova

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1900-09-05

Deathday 1975-11-11 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Moscow, USSR

Also Known As Yelizaveta Svilova, Елизавета Свилова, Е. Свилова

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).

Known For

Director

1953
1946
Nuremberg Trials

as Director

1946
Parade of Youth

as Director

1945
Auschwitz

as Director

1942
1938
Three Heroines

as Director

1937
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

as Assistant Director

1936
Milan Fair

as Director

1934
Three Songs About Lenin

as Assistant Director

1930
Enthusiasm

as Assistant Director

1928
The Eleventh Year

as Assistant Director

1927
Tunguses

as Director

1927
Bukhara

as Director

1926
A Sixth Part of the World

as Assistant Director

1926
Stride, Soviet!

as Assistant Director

Writer

1966
World Without a Game

as Script Consultant

1945
Auschwitz

as Writer

1938
Three Heroines

as Writer

Actor

2018
After the Facts

as Herself

1966
1929
Man with a Movie Camera

as Woman Editing Film (uncredited)

Crew

2019