Person
Elizaveta Svilova
- Specialty
- Directing
- Birth
- September 5, 1900 · 75 years
- Death
- November 11, 1975
- Origin
- Moscow, USSR
Technical Alias
Yelizaveta SvilovaЕ. СвиловаЕлизавета Вертова
Professional Trajectory
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова, rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
