Документальный телефильм из цикла Жизнь замечательных людей
Кира Муратова рассказывает об открытии в себе режиссёра, о своих родителях и детстве, о поступлении во ВГИК, о цензуре, о Боге, о любви.
A student film she completed with her husband Aleksandr Muratov, whom she would divorce shortly after.
The film U KRUTOGO JARA / ON THE STEEP CLIFF (1962) tells the story of a peasant who tames wild nature in the form of wolves. Civilization was viewed as an instrument for humanizing nature, as a way of placing nature in the service of human progress. At the beginning of the 19...
It's Muratova's first full-length feature film (actually co-directed with her husband Alexander Muratov) and i'm very surprised with her familiarity with nuances of village life and its customs. Muratova is very modern person (I'd even say post-modern), and it was unexpected, for me personally, that her first movie would be so rural. But for real artist the movie subject doesn'...
Based on Somerset Maugham's The Letter. A lawyer is preparing to defend a rich, respected man's wife, who killed a friend of the family who was attempting to sexually assault her. The scenario changes abruptly for all involved when the lawyer discovers a love letter from the woman to the murdered man.
This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to a WWII slogan about women doing the work of absent men in the fields and at home.
Бобруйский-Думбадзе - шеф жандармов в Одессе - страстно влюблен в танцовщицу Софи. Ему невдомек, что она и обворожительный шансонье Жорж Бенгальский распространяют подпольную литературу, прячась за масками блестящих артистов. Однако неугомонные события приводят главного жандарма за кулисы варьете, где происходит смертельный номер - бескомпромиссная схватка враждующих героев. Ка...
An unacknowledged poet Igor (Sergei Chetvertkov) is taping a video-letter to his ex-girlfriend who emigrated to America. The taping is interrupted by scenes from his life. Igor lives on the money he gets from renting out his own apartment. The tenant (with whom he apparently was previously on intimate terms) is trying to pay him with her body instead of cash. The video-letter i...
Kira Muratova made this film under the pseudonym of Ivan Sidorov in 1983, but the official release came in 1988. Taken from the novel by Vladimir Korolenko, this somber drama tells of a judge who is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his expe...
Кира Муратова отвечает на вопросы ведущей, показаны фрагменты из разных фильмов известного режиссера: "Короткие встречи", "Перемена участи", "Три истории" и др.