Helga Landauer : Хельга Ольшванг) is a film director, writer and a poet, based in New York City. She is best known for her work on the documentaries ''A Film About Anna Akhmatova'' and ''A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich'' and wrote screenplay for ''

Crystal Swan ''Crystal Swan'' ( be, Хрусталь, italic=yes) is a 2018 Belarusian drama film directed by Darya Zhuk. It was selected as the Belarusian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot In ...

''.

Life and career

Landauer was born in 1969 in

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, Soviet Union. She graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. She moved to the United States in 1996 and lives in New York City with her family. In 1998, Landauer's debut documentary feature, ''Being Far from Venice'', was featured in Anthology Film Archives series and screened at IDFA. ''A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich'' (2006), co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko, premiered at Carnegie Hall and

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in Paris. ''A Film About Anna Akhmatova'' (2008), was premiered at the

Baryshnikov Arts Center The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) is a foundation and arts complex opened by Mikhail Baryshnikov in 2005 at 450 West 37th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The top three floo ...

in New York. Her films were featured in many international film festivals, including

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and

Cinéma du Réel Cinéma du Réel (Cinema of the Real) is an international documentary film festival organized by the BPI-Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library) in Paris and was founded in 1978. The festival presents about 200 films per ye ...

among others. She was a screenwriter for a Belarusian film, ''

''.

Filmography

Books

* ''96th Book'' * ''The Reed'' (Тростник) * ''Poetry Works'' (Стихотворения) * ''Versions of the Present'' (Версии настоящего) * ''The Three'' (Трое) * ''The Blue is White'' (Голубое это белое) * ''Scrolls'' (Свертки)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Landauer, Helga Living people 1969 births Russian documentary filmmakers Women documentary filmmakers Russian women poets 21st-century Russian women writers