Kira Muratova
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 5, 1934, Soroca, Kingdom of Romania [now Moldova]
- Died
- June 6, 2018
- Movies
- 30
Kira Georgievna Muratova (Ukrainian: Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova; 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018; Soroca – Odesa) was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style.
Muratova's films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union, 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. She is People's Artist of Ukraine(1989); Academician of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (1997). Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1993) (in List of laureates at 1993 - № 12); Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2002). Muratova spent much of her artistic career in Odesa, creating most of her films at Odesa Film Studios.
Her work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making.'
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | What Beat You Nothing | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | …in Memory of the Master | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Furtively About Kira | Archive footage |
| 2003 | Kira | Self |
| 1988 | The Garden of Desires | Sorceress |
| 1988 | I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman | |
| 1969 | Dangerous Tour | Nina Aleksandrovna, revolutioner |
| 1967 | Brief Encounters | Valentina Ivanovna |
| 1958 | Spring Rain |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2013 | Eternal Homecoming | Director, Screenplay |
| 2009 | Melody for a Street Organ | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | Two in One | Director |
| 2007 | Dummy | Director |
| 2005 | The Tuner | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | The Certificate | Director |
| 2002 | Chekhovian Motifs | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | Second Class Citizens | Director, Screenplay |
| 1999 | Letter to America | Director |
| 1997 | Three Stories | Director |
| 1994 | Passions | Director, Screenplay |
| 1992 | The Sentimental Policeman | Director, Screenplay |
| 1989 | The Asthenic Syndrome | Director, Writer |
| 1987 | Change of Fate | Director, Writer |
| 1983 | Among Grey Stones | Director, Screenplay |
| 1980 | Getting to Know the Big Wide World | Director, Screenplay |
| 1971 | The Long Farewell | Director |
| 1967 | Brief Encounters | Director, Screenplay |
| 1964 | Our Honest Bread | Director |
| 1962 | By the Ravine | Director, Screenplay |
| 1958 | Spring Rain | Director, Writer |
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