Marina Goldovskaya

Soviet and Russian-American documentary film maker (1941–2022)

Marina Yevseyevna Goldovskaya (Russian: Марина Евсеевна Голдо́вская; July 15, 1941 – March 20, 2022) was a Russian-American documentary filmmaker known for her candid portrayal of people.

Early life and education

Her father worked with Eisenstein in starting the VGIK.

Career

Goldovskaya documented ordinary people, seamstresses, a female astronaut, literary and artistic legends, as well as political leaders. Born in Moscow, she was the winner of USSR State Prize in 1989.^[1]

She was he first woman to graduate as a cinematographer from the VGIK. She was assistant camera on Andrei Tarkovsky's thesis film: The Steamroller and the Violin.

Goldovskaya is credited as the first woman in Russia to be the combined director, writer, cinematographer, and producer of her films.

The recipient of many documentary film and lifetime achievement awards, she served as a professor at the UCLA School of Film and Television in Los Angeles.^[2] At UCLA she was teacher, confidant, friend and mentor to many graduate film students.

A memoir by Marina Goldovskaya, A Woman with a Movie Camera, originally published in Russian, was issued in an English translation in 2006 by Texas University Press.

Goldovskaya died on March 20, 2022, in Latvia.^[3]

Filmography

Valentina Tereshkova (1972)
This Is Our Profession (1973)
Arkady Raikin (1975)
Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1976)
The Experiment (1978)
Pouskin and Pouschin (1980)
After the Harvest (1981)
At Pouskin's Home (1982)
Hello, It Is Beduliya Speaking (1985)
Arkhangelsk Man (1986)
Oleg Yefremov: For the Theater to Be... (1987)
Solovki Power (1988)^[4]
Tumbalalaika in America (1988)
I Am 90, My Steps Are Light (1989)
A Taste of Freedom (1991)
More Than Love (1991)
The Shattered Mirror (1992)^[4]
The House on Arbat Street (1993) ^[4]^[5]
Lucky to be Born in Russia (International: English title) (1994)
A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg (USA, 1997)
The Children of Ivan Kuzmich (1997)
The Prince Is Back (1999, 2004)
Peter Sellars: Portrait (2004)
Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story (International: English title) (2006)
Anna Politkovskaya: The Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)^[6]
The Art of Observing Life: Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers (2014)

References

^ "Умерла кинорежиссёр-документалист Марина Голдовская" (in Russian). Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty). March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
^ Кино СССР (in Russian)
^ "Documentary Filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Dead at Age 80". The Moscow Times. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Aitken, Ian (2006). Encyclopedia of the documentary film. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1579584454. OCLC 59002598.
^ "House on Arbat Street, The (1993) — Overview — TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
^ Горький вкус свободы Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine