Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova was a Russian filmmaker and film editor.
13 Facts About Yelizaveta Svilova
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Yelizaveta Svilova is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman.
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Yelizaveta Svilova is known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera.
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Yelizaveta Svilova worked with Vladimir Gardin and with Vsevolod Meyerhold.
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Yelizaveta Svilova met Dziga Vertov while working as a film editor.
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Yelizaveta Svilova edited the seminal Soviet propaganda film about the liberation of Auschwitz Oswiecim.
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Yelizaveta Svilova was the director-editor of over 100 documentaries and newsreel episodes from 1939 to 1956.
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Yelizaveta Svilova carefully watched over her husband's legacy by publishing his writings and cataloging his manuscripts.
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Yelizaveta Svilova died in 1975 in Moscow and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Yelizaveta Svilova was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman.
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Yelizaveta Svilova covered the opening of Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland by the Red Army in January 1945.
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Yelizaveta Svilova filmed a documentary, which included reenactments, titled Auschwitz, part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War; the Soviets and the Holocaust " in Paris, France at the Memorial de la Shoah.
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Yelizaveta Svilova later directed a film about the trials, condemning the warmongering and atrocities present in World War II.