Marina Yevseyevna Goldovskaya (russian: Марина Евсеевна Голдо́вская; July 15, 1941 – March 20, 2022) was a Russian-American documentary film maker known for her candid portrayal of people. Family Her father worked with Eisenstein in starting the VGIK.

Career

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

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in 1989. She was he first woman to graduate as a cinematographer from the VGIK. She was assistant camera on Andrei Tarkovsky's thesis film: 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

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. 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.

Filmography

* ''

Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( rus, Валентина Владимировна Терешкова, links=no, p=vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə, a=Valentina Tereshkova.ogg; born 6 March 1937) is an engine ...

'' (1972) * '' This Is Our Profession'' (1973) * ''

Arkady Raikin Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (russian: Аркадий Исаакович Райкин; – 17 December 1987) was a Soviet stand-up comedian, theater and film actor, and stage director. He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about hal ...

'' (1975) * ''

Aleksandr Tvardovsky Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky ( rus, links=no, Александр Трифонович Твардовский, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj; – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of ' ...

'' (1976) * ''The Experiment'' (1978) * '' Pouskin and Pouschin'' (1980) * '' After the Harvest'' (1981) * '' At Pouskin's Home'' (1982) * '' Hello, It Is Beduliya Speaking'' (1985) * '' Arkhangelsky muzhik'' (1986) * ''

Oleg Yefremov Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов, 1 October 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – 24 May 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Art ...

: Chtoby byl teatr'' (Soviet Union: Russian title) / '' For the Theater to Be...'' (1987) * '' Vlast' Solovetskaya. Svidetel'stva i dokumenty'' / ''Solovki Power'' (1988) * '' Tumbalalaika in America'' (1988) * '' I Am 90, My Steps Are Light'' (1989) * ''A Taste of Freedom'' (1991) * ''More Than Love'' (1991) * ''Oskolki zerkala'' (Russia) / ''The Shattered Mirror - The Diary of a Time of Trouble'' (1992) * ''Dom s rizariami'' / ''The House on Arbat Street'' (1993) * ''Lucky to be Born in

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'' (International: English title) (1994) * ''A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on

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'' (USA, 1997) * '' The Children of Ivan Kuzmich'' (1997) * '' The Prince Is Back'' (1999, 2004) * ''

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: Portrait'' (2004) * ''

Anatoly Rybakov Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist ''Children of the Arbat ''trilogy, the novel ''Heavy Sand' ...

: The Russian Story'' (International: English title) (2006) * ''

Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...

: The Bitter Taste of Freedom'' (2011)«Горький вкус свободы»
* ''The Art of Observing Life: Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers'' (2014)

References

External links

Goldfilms - Producer and distributor of Marina Goldovskaya films
* 1941 births 2022 deaths Mass media people from Moscow American cinematographers Film people from Los Angeles Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni American women cinematographers Soviet women cinematographers Russian women cinematographers Russian documentary filmmakers Recipients of the USSR State Prize Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Women documentary filmmakers Russian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Russian women 21st-century American women {{US-cinematographer-stub