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Kira Muratova
Soroca, Kingdom of Romania [now Moldova]
Kira Georgievna Muratova (Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova; 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018; Soroca – Odesa) was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwrite…
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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.'
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2021
What Beat You Nothing
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
…in Memory of the Master
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Furtively About Kira
Movie Archive footage
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2013
Eternal Homecoming
Movie Screenplay
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2009
Melody for a Street Organ
Movie Director
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2007
Two in One
Movie Director
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2007
Dummy
Movie Director
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2005
The Tuner
Movie Director
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2005
The Certificate
Movie Director
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2003
Kira
Movie Self
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2002
Chekhovian Motifs
Movie Director
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2001
Second Class Citizens
Movie Director
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1999
Letter to America
Movie Director
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1997
Three Stories
Movie Director
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1994
Passions
Movie Director
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1992
The Sentimental Policeman
Movie Director
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1989
The Asthenic Syndrome
Movie Director
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1988
The Garden of Desires
Movie Sorceress
- 1988
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1987
Change of Fate
Movie Writer
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1983
Among Grey Stones
Movie Director
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1980
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Movie Director
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1971
The Long Farewell
Movie Director
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1969
Dangerous Tour
Movie Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner
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1967
Brief Encounters
Movie Valentina Ivanovna
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1964
Our Honest Bread
Movie Director
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1962
By the Ravine
Movie Director
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1958
Spring Rain
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