Kira Muratova
Kira Muratova · Arts & Literature
Film director of the Soviet and Ukrainian cinema, The Asthenic Syndrome (Silver Bear, Berlin 1990)
5 novembre 1934, Soroca, Roumanie (auj. Moldavie) — 6 juin 2018, Odessa, Ukraine
Soroca, Moscou, Odessa
Kira Muratova is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Film director of the Soviet and Ukrainian cinema, The Asthenic Syndrome (Silver Bear, Berlin 1990)
Origins and early life
Kira Muratova was born Kira Korotkova on 5 November 1934 in Soroca, then in Romania and today in Moldova.
Work and career
Her mother, Natalia née Reznic, was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist — RFE/RL, The Guardian and the British Film Institute all record it — and her Russian father, an anti-fascist resister, was executed in 1941. She trained in Moscow at the VGIK film school under Sergei Gerasimov and spent her working life at the Odessa Film Studio, where she became one of the most original and least tameable directors of Soviet and then Ukrainian cinema.
Her early masterpieces Brief Encounters (1967) and The Long Farewell (1971) were shelved by the censors for two decades; she was barred from directing for years and rehabilitated only under perestroika.
Recognition
The Asthenic Syndrome, her ferocious portrait of a society in collapse, won the Silver Bear special jury prize in Berlin in 1990, and she kept making singular films, The Tuner among them, into her late seventies. She died in Odessa on 6 June 2018.
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Film director of the Soviet and Ukrainian cinema, The Asthenic Syndrome (Silver Bear, Berlin 1990)
Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/kira-muratova-prominent-soviet-era-film-director-dead-at-83/29277905.html
