Esfir Shub

Esfir SHUB (1894-1959, Russia) is seen as the most prominent female Soviet filmmaker of her generation. She worked in the theatre of the Russian People’s Commissariat for Education, where her cooperation with avant-garde director Meyerhold and poet Mayakovsky started. She joined the Goskino film company, where in 1927 she made her first documentary The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. This work would become part of a trilogy on pre-war Russian history. She made her last film Twenty Years of Soviet Cinema (1940) with Vsevolod Pudovkin, before setting a new course as editor-in-chief of the news at the day studio for documentary film in Moscow.

Filmography

(all doc) Padenie dinastii Romanovykh/The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), Velikiy put/The Great Road (1927), Rossiya Nikolaya II i Lev Tolstoy/Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II (1928), Segodnya/Today (1929), Kino za XX let/Twenty Years of Soviet Cinema (1940, co-dir)