Elizaveta Svilova

Directing • Born 1900-09-05 • Moscow, USSR

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).

Filmography

World Without a Game

1966 • Herself

The Magic Beam

1963 • Self (archive footage)

After the Facts

2018 • Herself