Kira Muratova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Georgiyivna and the family name is Korotkova/Muratova.
Kira Muratova
Кіра Муратова
Muratova in 2006
Born
Kira Gueórguievna Korotkova

(1934-11-05)5 November 1934
Soroca, Kingdom of Romania
(now Moldova)
Died6 June 2018(2018-06-06) (aged 83)
Odesa, Ukraine
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Actress
Years active1961–2018
Spouses
  • Oleksandr Muratov
  • Evgeny Golubenko

Kira Georgievna Muratova (Romanian: Kira Gheórghievna Muratova; Russian: Кира Георгиевна Муратова; Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018[1][2]) was a Ukrainian[3][4][5][6] award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style.[7]

Muratova's films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union,[8] yet still Muratova managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in contemporary Cinema of Ukraine and Russian cinema and was able to build a very successful film career from 1960s onwards.[9] She is People's Artist of Ukraine (1989); Academician of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (1997).[10] Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1993) (in List of laureates at 1993 - No. 12); Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2002). Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios.[11]

Her work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making.'[12]

  1. ^ Умерла Кира Муратова
  2. ^ Kira Muratova, Renowned Ukrainian Director, Dies at 83
  3. ^ Kira Muratova: The Zoological Imperium // Nancy Condee (2009). The Imperial Trace : Recent Russian Cinema. Oxford University Press. pp. 115–140. ISBN 978-0199710546.
  4. ^ Women and Russian film: The films of Kira Muratova // David C. Gillespie (2003). Russian Cinema. Harlow. UK, and New York: Longman. pp. 92–102. ISBN 978-1-317-87412-6.
  5. ^ Taubman, Jane A. “The Cinema of Kira Muratova.” The Russian Review, vol. 52, no. 3, 1993, pp. 367–381.
  6. ^ Roberts, Graham. (1999). The Meaning of Death: Kira Muratova's Cinema of the Absurd. // B. Beumers (Ed.). Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. London: I.B.Tauris. 220 p.: pp. 144–160.
  7. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 474–477. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  8. ^ Gray, Carmen; Pyzik, Agata; Vivaldi, Giuliano; Goff, Samuel (13 June 2018). "Kira Muratova: a tribute to the dazzling, controversial genius of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema". The Calvert Journal.
  9. ^ Muratova, Kira 1934-2018 (Kira Georgievna Korotkova). encyclopedia.com. 2018
  10. ^ М. В. Юр. Муратова Кіра Георгіївна Archived 2016-10-02 at the Wayback Machine//Енциклопедія історії України : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — Київ : Наукова думка, 2010. — Т. 7 : Мл — О. — С. 134. — 728 с. : іл. — ISBN 978-966-00-1061-1.
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  12. ^ Gorfinkel, Elena (2019). "CLOSE-UP | Kira Muratova's Searing World". www.closeupfilmcentre.com (second ed.). Retrieved 2022-02-26.