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Marina Goldovskaya

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Goldovskaya in 2005

Marina Yevseyevna Goldovskaya (Russian: Марина Евсеевна Голдо́вская; July 15, 1941 – March 20, 2022) was a Russian-American documentary filmmaker known for her candid portrayal of people.

Early life and education

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Her father worked with Eisenstein in starting the VGIK.

Career

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Goldovskaya documented ordinary people, seamstresses, a female astronaut, literary and artistic legends, as well as political leaders. Born in Moscow, she was the winner of USSR State Prize in 1989.[1]

She was he first woman to graduate as a cinematographer from the VGIK. She was assistant camera on Andrei Tarkovsky's thesis film: The Steamroller and the Violin.

Goldovskaya is credited as the first woman in Russia to be the combined director, writer, cinematographer, and producer of her films.

The recipient of many documentary film and lifetime achievement awards, she served as a professor at the UCLA School of Film and Television in Los Angeles.[2] At UCLA she was teacher, confidant, friend and mentor to many graduate film students.

A memoir by Marina Goldovskaya, A Woman with a Movie Camera, originally published in Russian, was issued in an English translation in 2006 by Texas University Press.

Goldovskaya died on March 20, 2022, in Latvia.[3]

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Умерла кинорежиссёр-документалист Марина Голдовская" (in Russian). Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty). March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  2. ^ Кино СССР (in Russian)
  3. ^ "Documentary Filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Dead at Age 80". The Moscow Times. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Aitken, Ian (2006). Encyclopedia of the documentary film. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1579584454. OCLC 59002598.
  5. ^ "House on Arbat Street, The (1993) — Overview — TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  6. ^ Горький вкус свободы Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
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