Kira Muratova

Biography

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 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 - № 12); Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2002). Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios. Her work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making.'

Directed

1. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) — Director
2. The Long Farewell (1987) — Director
3. Brief Encounters (1967) — Director
4. The Tuner (2005) — Director
5. Three Stories (1997) — Director
6. Getting to Know the Big Wide World (1978) — Director
7. Chekhovian Motifs (2002) — Director
8. Passions (1994) — Director
9. Two in One (2007) — Director
10. Change of Fate (1987) — Director
11. Second Class Citizens (2001) — Director
12. Melody for a Street Organ (2009) — Director
13. Among Grey Stones (1983) — Director
14. The Sentimental Policeman (1992) — Director
15. Eternal Homecoming (2013) — Director
16. Letter to America (1999) — Director
17. By the Ravine (1962) — Director
18. The Certificate (2005) — Director
19. Our Honest Bread (1964) — Director
20. Dummy (2007) — Director
21. Spring Rain (1958) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Brief Encounters (1967) — Valentina Ivanovna
2. Dangerous Tour (1969) — Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner
3. The Garden of Desires (1987) — Sorceress
4. I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988)
5. What Beat You Nothing (2021) — Self (archive footage)
6. Kira (2003) — Self
7. Spring Rain (1958)
8. Furtively About Kira (2019) — Archive footage
9. …in Memory of the Master (2021) — Self (archive footage)