
Person
Elizaveta Svilova
Directing · 1900–1975 · Moscow, USSR
Biography
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова, rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Known for

Man with a Movie Camera
Editor

Three Heroines
Director

Kino Eye
Editor

Stride, Soviet!
Assistant Director

Lluvia de jaulas
Thanks

For You at the Front!
Director

A Sixth Part of the World
Assistant Editor

Kino-Pravda No. 7
Editor

The Eleventh Year
Assistant Director

Kino-Pravda No. 17
Editor
Filmography
- 2019Lluvia de jaulasThanks
- 2018After the FactsSelf (archive footage)
- 1966World Without a GameSelf
- 1963The Magic BeamSelf (archive footage)
- 1953Velikoye proshchaniyeDirector
- 1946Nuremberg TrialsDirector
- 1946Parade of YouthDirector
- 1945AuschwitzDirector
- 1945The Fall of BerlinEditor
- 1942For You at the Front!Director
- 1938Three HeroinesDirector
- 1937In Memory of Sergo OrdzhonikidzeAssistant Director
- 1936Milan FairDirector
- 1934Three Songs About LeninAssistant Director
- 1930Enthusiasm. Symphony of DonbasAssistant Director
- 1929Man with a Movie CameraEditor
- 1928The Eleventh YearAssistant Director
- 1927The TungusDirector
- 1927BukharaDirector
- 1926A Sixth Part of the WorldAssistant Editor
- 1926Stride, Soviet!Assistant Director
- 1925Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film StoryEditor
- 1924Kino EyeEditor
- 1923Kino-Pravda No. 17Editor
- 1923Kino-Pravda No. 14Editor
- 1922Kino-Pravda No. 7Editor
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