Elizaveta Svilova
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 26
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- September 5, 1900
- Died
- November 11, 1975
- Place of birth
- Moscow, USSR
- Also known as
- Yelizaveta SvilovaЕ. СвиловаЕлизавета Вертова
Biography
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).
