19 Facts About Kira Muratova

Kira Georgievna Muratova 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.

Kira Muratova is People's Artist of Ukraine ; Academician of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Kira Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios.

Kira Muratova's work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making.

Kira Muratova Korotkova was born in 1934 in Soroca, Romania to a Russian father and a Jewish mother.

Kira Muratova's parents were both active communists and members of the Communist Party.

In 1959, Kira Muratova graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, specializing in directing.

Kira Muratova directed her first professional film in 1961 and worked with the studio until a professional conflict made her to move to Leningrad in 1978.

Kira Muratova's films came under constant criticism of the Soviet officials due to her idiosyncratic film language that did not comply with the norms of socialist realism.

Several times Kira Muratova was banned from working as a director for a number of years each time.

Kira Muratova married her fellow Odesa studio director Oleksandr Muratov in the early 1960s and co-created several films with him.

Kira Muratova kept her ex-husband's surname despite her later marriage to Leningrad painter and production designer Evgeny Golubenko.

Two actresses Kira Muratova has repeatedly cast are Renata Litvinova and Nataliya Buzko.

Kira Muratova's films were usually productions of Ukraine or co-productions between Ukraine and Russia, always in the Russian language, although Kira Muratova could speak Ukrainian and did not object to the Ukrainianization of Ukrainian cinema.

Kira Muratova supported the Euromaidan protesters and the following 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

Kira Muratova's films were premiered at International Film Festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Moscow, Rome, Venice and others.

Kira Muratova's films received the Russian "Nika" prize in 1991,1995,2005,2007,2009 and 2013.

Kira Muratova's work has been mistakenly been 'largely ignored' in the Film Studies courses or in discussions on 'the greatest filmmakers of all time' according to recent film critic, Bianca Garner.