Kira Muratova
Director
Biography
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.'
Filmography
Brief Encounters
as Valentina Ivanovna 1967
Dangerous Tour
as Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner 1969
The Garden of Desires
as Sorceress 1987
I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman
1988
What Beat You Nothing
as Self (archive footage) 2021
Kira
as Self 2003
Spring Rain
1958
Furtively About Kira
as Archive footage 2019