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Kira Muratova
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Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, film actress (1934–2018)
Kira Muratova was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, and actress who worked from the 1960s until her death in 2018. She is considered an important figure in cinema history for her distinctive directorial style and contributions to Soviet and Ukrainian film.
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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, 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…
Known for
- What Beat You Nothing — Self (archive footage)2021
- …in Memory of the Master — Self (archive footage)2021
- Furtively About Kira — Archive footage2019
- Kira — Self2003
- I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman1988
- The Garden of Desires — Sorceress1988
- Dangerous Tour — Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner1969
- Brief Encounters — Valentina Ivanovna1967
- Spring Rain1958
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kira
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Place of birth
- Soroca
- Place of death
- Odesa
- Educated at
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Employer
- Odesa Film Studio
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Nika Award
- Participant in
- 1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Field of work
- film direction
- Image
- Muratova.jpg
- Work location
- Odesa
- Residence
- Odesa
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- Commons category
- Kira Muratova
- date of birth
- 1934-11-05
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- name in native language
- Кіра Георгіївна Муратова
- date of death
- 2018-06-06
- birth name
- Кіра Георгіївна Короткова
- cause of death
- stroke
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Kira Muratova
- manner of death
- natural causes
- contributed to creative work
- Chekhov's Motifs
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Encyclopedic overview
Kira Georgievna Muratova (Romanian: Kira Gheórghievna Muratova; Russian: Кира Георгиевна Муратова; Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a Ukrainian award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress, 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 - No. 12); Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2002). Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios.
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