Margarita Aleksandrovna Barskaya was a Soviet actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Margarita Barskaya
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Margarita Barskaya wrote the screenplays for and directed three films.
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Margarita Aleksandrovna Barskaya was born on 19 June 1903 in Baku.
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Margarita Barskaya appeared in the 1922 film Modzgvari and Aleksandr Dovzhenko's first film, Love's Berries.
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Margarita Barskaya moved to Moscow in 1929 and turned her focus to children's film.
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Margarita Barskaya initiated the foundation of a film council at Narkompros and organized a children's section for the Association of Revolutionary Film-Workers.
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In 1930, Margarita Barskaya directed her first film, Who's More Important, What's More Necessary.
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Margarita Barskaya made the educational film at Vostokkino in four months.
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Margarita Barskaya wrote the script for and directed the successful 1933 children's fiction film Torn Boots.
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Margarita Barskaya worked to secure a studio that specialized in children's cinema.
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Margarita Barskaya appealed to Lazar Kaganovich, who supervised Moscow's general reconstruction, and, in a letter dated 2 February 1935, to Joseph Stalin.
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Margarita Barskaya opened the Laboratory for Children's Cinema later that year.