Elizaveta Svilova

Lluvia de jaulas (2019)

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead. A garden of amputated flowers, which with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance. ...

World Without a Game (1966)

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema. ...

Velikoye proshchaniye (1953)

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin. ...

Nuremberg Trials (1946)

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring. ...

Auschwitz (1945)

Soviet documentary shot right after liberation of Auschwitz. It was used as evidence by the Soviet prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. In 2014, footage shot by cameraman Aleksandr Vorontsov, as well as his interview given in 1986 for German television, we ...

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany's capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film rec ...

For You at the Front! (1942)

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of "acted films," which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov's poetic and patriotic For You ...

Three Heroines (1938)

Follows the legendary female pilots Raskova, Osipenko, and Grisodubova in their failed but magnificent attempt to make the first nonstop trans-Siberian flight. Using documentary reenactments, Vertov depicts the flight, the crash, the rescue, and the women' ...

In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1937)

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexp ...

Milan Fair (1936)

Three Songs About Lenin (1934)

This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. ...

After the Facts (2018)

In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible. ...

World Without a Game (1966)

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema. ...

The Magic Beam (1963)

"The Magic Beam" is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s. ...