Marianna Yelizarovna Tavrog (russian: Таврог, Марианна Елизаровна) (1921-2006) was a Soviet Russian documentary film director, Honored Artist of Russian Federation.

Biography

Born into a Jewish family on January 16, 1921, in the city of

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, studied in Taganrog. Entered the Teachers' College in

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, and after the start of

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had to evacuate to

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and entered the

VGIK The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

, which was evacuated to

in 1941. Among her teachers were

Leonid Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the S ...

and

Grigory Kozintsev Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (russian: link=no, Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 19 ...

. After VGIK returned from evacuation to

, Tavrog attended classes by

Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (russian: Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He ...

and

Aleksandra Khokhlova Aleksandra Sergeyevna Khokhlova (born Alexandra Sergeyevna Botkina, russian: Александра Сергеевна Хохлова, 4 October 1897 – 22 August 1985) was a Soviet actress, theatre director, writer, and educator. Biography ...

Filmography

The main topics of Tavrog's documentaries were literature and art. * 1960 — Самуил Маршак * 1969 — Чукоккала * 1970 — Михаил Светлов * 1972 — Ритм стиха * 1972 — Один Тамм * 1977 — Мой дом открыт * 1977 — Лариса Рейснер * 1979 — Художник сказочных чудес * 1981 — Портрет * 1982 — Мне 100 лет * 1983 — Старые мастера (« Centrnauchfilm») * 1985 — Ради жизни на Земле * 1985 — Нащокинский домик * 1985 — Жизнь цвета * 1986 — От дедов к внукам * 1987 — Первый декабрист * 1988 — Страницы из жизни идеалиста * 1996 — Театр Марка Шагала * 1996 — Сентиментальный гротеск, или художники еврейского театра * 1999 - Евгений Онегин. Глава Х.

Footnotes

References

* Шмульян Г.Т. Таврог Марианна Елизаровна / Таганрог. Энциклопедия. — Таганрог: Антон, 2008. — С. 663. — . * http://www.ng.ru/accent/2007-01-12/23_history.html * http://www.gif.ru/afisha/tavrog/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20110721161533/http://www.mjcc.ru/news/67/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavrog, Marianna 1921 births 2006 deaths People from Taganrog Soviet film directors Russian film directors Russian women film directors