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.
5-572: Her father worked with Eisenstein in starting the VGIK . 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. 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
10-826: 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. This article about an American cinematographer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . VGIK The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography , officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography ( Russian : Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова , romanized : Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvyennyy institut kinematografii imyeni S. A. Gerasimova , meaning All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov ), a.k.a. VGIK ,
15-744: Is a film school in Moscow , Russia . The institute was founded in 1919 by the film director Vladimir Gardin as the Moscow Film School and is the first and oldest film school in the world. From 1934 to 1991 the film school was known as the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography ( Russian : Всесоюзный государственный институт кинематографии ). Film directors taught at the institute include Lev Kuleshov , Marlen Khutsiev , Aleksey Batalov , Sergei Eisenstein , Mikhail Romm and Vsevolod Pudovkin . Since 1986,
20-669: 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 . At UCLA she was teacher, confidant, friend and mentor to many graduate film students. A memoir by Marina Goldovskaya, A Woman with
25-512: The school has been named after the film director and actor Sergei Gerasimov . The founding of the institute was authorized by Lenin in 1919. Its work in the early years was hampered by a shortage of film stock. It has a history as one of the oldest film schools in existence; many film directors have taught at the institute. During the period of the Soviet Union it was a requirement of the state to attend VGIK in order to be allowed to direct
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