Kira Muratova
Kira MURATOVA (1934, Romania) studied at the Moscow Film School and became a director at the Odessa Film Studio where she made her feature debut Our Honest Bread in 1964 with Alexander Muratov. As a result of her unorthodox style, most of her subsequent films faced difficulties with Soviet censorship. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Muratova quickly won renown at home and abroad, not only with her earlier work but also with her new films. She won several prizes and awards, among others the Special Jury Prize in Berlin for The Asthenic Syndrome in 1990 and the Leopard of Honour at Locarno for her complete oeuvre in 1994. Signals: Kira Muratova is the first retrospective outside Russia and Ukraine, which contains all of her films.
Filmography
U krutogo yara/On the Steep Cliff (1961, co-dir), Nash chestnyy khleb/Our Honest Bread (1964, co-dir), Korotkie vstrechi/Brief Encounters (1967), Dolgiye provody/Long Farewells (1971, rel. 1987), Poznavaya belyy svet/Getting to Know the Big Wide World (1979), Sredi serykh kamney/Among Grey Stones (1983), Peremena uchasti/Change of Fortune (1987), Astenicheskiy sindrom/The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), Cuvstvitelnyy milicioner/The Sentimental Policeman (1992), Uvlecheniya/Passions (1994), Tri istorii/Three Stories (1997), Pismo v Ameriku/Letter to America (1999, short), Vtorostepennye lyudi/Second Class Citizens (2001), Chekhovskiye motivy/Chechov's Motives (2002), Nastroyshchik/The Tuner (2004), Spravka/The Certifcate (2005, short), Kukla/Dummy (2007, short), Dva v odnom/Two in One (2007), Melodiya dlya sharmanki/Melody for a Street Organ (2009), Vecnoe vozvrascenie/Eternal Homecoming (2012)
Kira Muratova at IFFR
Brief Encounters
96'
USSR
IFFR 1988
Long Farewells
97'
USSR
IFFR 1988
The Asthenic Syndrome
153'
USSR
IFFR 1991
Change of Fortune
109'
USSR
IFFR 1991
The Sentimental Policeman
115'
Ukraine
IFFR 1993
The Tuner
154'
Russia
IFFR 2005
Two in One
130'
Ukraine
IFFR 2008
Among Grey Stones
88'
USSR
IFFR 2013
The Asthenic Syndrome
153'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Brief Encounters
96'
USSR
IFFR 2013
The Certificate
10'
Russia
IFFR 2013
Change of Fortune
109'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Chekhov's Motifs
120'
Russia
IFFR 2013
Dummy
32'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
Eternal Homecoming
114'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
75'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Letter to America
20'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
Long Farewells
97'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Melody for a Street Organ
153'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
On the Steep Cliff
50'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Our Honest Bread
100'
USSR
IFFR 2013
Passions
112'
Russia
IFFR 2013
Second Class Citizens
105'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
The Sentimental Policeman
115'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013
Three Stories
105'
Russia
IFFR 2013
The Tuner
154'
Russia
IFFR 2013
Two in One
130'
Ukraine
IFFR 2013