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Kira Muratova

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
9

Gender
Female

Birthday
November 5, 1934 (91 years old)

Place of Birth
Soroca, Kingdom of Romania [now Moldova]

Kira Muratova

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.'

Known For

Directing

2013Eternal Homecoming...Director
2009Melody for a Street Organ...Director
2007Two in One...Director
2007Dummy...Director
2005The Tuner...Director
2005The Certificate...Director
2002Chekhovian Motifs...Director
2001Second Class Citizens...Director
1999Letter to America...Director
1997Three Stories...Director
1994Passions...Director
1992The Sentimental Policeman...Director
1989The Asthenic Syndrome...Director
1987Change of Fate...Director
1987The Long Farewell...Director
1983Among Grey Stones...Director
1978Getting to Know the Big Wide World...Director
1967Brief Encounters...Director
1964Our Honest Bread...Director
1962By the Ravine...Director
1958Spring Rain...Director

Writing

2013Eternal Homecoming...Screenplay
2009Melody for a Street Organ...Writer
2005The Tuner...Writer
2002Chekhovian Motifs...Screenplay
2001Second Class Citizens...Screenplay
1994Passions...Screenplay
1992The Sentimental Policeman...Screenplay
1989The Asthenic Syndrome...Writer
1987Change of Fate...Writer
1983Among Grey Stones...Screenplay
1978Getting to Know the Big Wide World...Screenplay
1967Brief Encounters...Screenplay
1962By the Ravine...Screenplay
1958Spring Rain...Writer

Acting

2021What Beat You Nothingas Self (archive footage)
2021…in Memory of the Masteras Self (archive footage)
2019Furtively About Kiraas Archive footage
2003Kiraas Self
1988I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Womanas
1987The Garden of Desiresas Sorceress
1969Dangerous Touras Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner
1967Brief Encountersas Valentina Ivanovna
1958Spring Rainas