Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary
filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to
combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer,
Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than
one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American
television. Her work, which includes the award-winning films The
House on Arbat Street, The Shattered Mirror, and Solovky Power, has
garnered international acclaim and won virtually every prize given
for documentary filmmaking. In Woman with a Movie Camera,
Goldovskaya turns her lens on her own life and work, telling an
adventurous, occasionally harrowing story of growing up in the
Stalinist era and subsequently documenting Russian society from the
1960s, through the Thaw and Perestroika, to post-Soviet Russia. She
recalls her childhood in a Moscow apartment building that housed
famous filmmakers, being one of only three women students at the
State Film School, and working as an assistant cameraperson on the
first film of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia's most celebrated director.
Reviewing her professional filmmaking career, which began in the
1960s, Goldovskaya reveals her passion for creating films that
presented a truthful picture of Soviet life, as well as the
challenges of working within (and sometimes subverting) the
bureaucracies that controlled Russian film and television
production and distribution. Along the way, she describes a host of
notable figures in Russian film, theater, art, and politics, as
well as the technological evolution of filmmaking from film to
video to digital media. A compelling portrait of a woman who broke
gender and political barriers, as well as the eventful four decades
of Russian history she has documented, Woman with a Movie Camera
will be fascinating reading for a wide audience.
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