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Yelizaveta Svilova (Elizaveta Schnitt) was born on 5 September, 1900 in Moscow, is a Russian-Soviet filmmaker and editor. Discover Yelizaveta Svilova's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Elizaveta Schnitt
Occupation Film editor · filmmaker
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September 1900
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace Moscow
Date of death 11 November, 1975
Died Place Moscow
Nationality Russia

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Her husband is Dziga Vertov (m. 1923-1954)

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1900

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (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.

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (born Elizaveta Schnitt) was born on September 5, 1900, in Moscow.

Starting at age 14, she began film editing for Pathé.

She worked with Vladimir Gardin and with Vsevolod Meyerhold.

1918

From 1918 to 1922, she worked at Narkompros.

1922

From 1922, she worked at Goskino.

She met Dziga Vertov while working as a film editor.

1923

They married in 1923.

After her husband fell out of favor in the Soviet film industry, Svilova continued to work in film and supported both of them.

1927

In 1927, he was fired from Sovkino Studio.

1929

She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).

Their film Man with a Movie Camera (1929) features Svilova editing film and Kaufman filming the movie.

The film is regarded as "a landmark in experimental cinema".

Shortly after Man with a Movie Camera, Kaufman and Vertov had a falling out over artistic differences resulting in the two brothers never working together again.

One suggested reason is prominence of Svilova in the film and her subsequent notoriety.

The trio was known for their avant-garde and futurist ideas.

Vertov's work was condemned for being too formalist and not adhering to the socialist realism expectations of the time.

1930

In the late 1930s, it was nearly impossible for Vertov to find work in the state-run film industry.

1939

She was the director-editor of over 100 documentaries and newsreel episodes from 1939 to 1956.

Following her husband's death, Svilova left the industry.

She carefully watched over her husband's legacy by publishing his writings and cataloging his manuscripts.

1942

Her directorial debut was For You at the Front (1942).

1945

The Fall of Berlin (1945), co directed with Yuli Raziman, won the 1946 Stalin prize.

She covered the opening of Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland by the Red Army in January 1945.

1946

In 1946, her film Fascist Atrocities was used as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials.

She later directed a film about the trials, condemning the warmongering and atrocities present in World War II.

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1954

They continued to work together until Vertov's death from stomach cancer in 1954.

Though she began as an editor, Svilova moved away from doing fiction films and onto montage documentary.

1975

She died in 1975 in Moscow and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman.

They were regarded as montage theorists and together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."

The group is known for "pioneering montage documentary".

2015

She filmed a documentary, which included reenactments, titled Auschwitz, part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War; the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (9 January 2015 – 27 September 2015) in Paris, France at the Memorial de la Shoah.