Marina Goldovskaya: biography and filmography of a famous director

Marina Goldovskaya is a Russian writer, documentary filmmaker, author of such films as Arkady Raikin, Archangel Muzhik, Solovetsky Power and Bitter Taste of Freedom.

Biography

Marina Goldovskaya was born in Moscow, in the family of a scientist-inventor. After graduation she entered the VGIK, the operator's department. On television came in the early sixties. For some time she worked as an operator. But soon began to create their own films. Marina Goldovskaya is a director who is called a master of documentary films. She created more than thirty paintings. Goldovskaya also deals with teaching activities: she lectures at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University.

Marina Goldovskaya, whose biography and creative path began long before the perestroika era, is perhaps the only Russian cinematographer known in the West. Her films received positive reviews from foreign critics. At home, Marina Goldovskaya was awarded a state prize for the painting "Archangel's Man". According to her work, students of US universities study the history of Russia in the 20th century.

Features of creativity

Already at the beginning of her career Marina Goldovskaya used methods previously unknown to Soviet cinematographers. As an operator, she worked in 1968 on the movie "Weaver." It is a question of the so-called method of observation, when a person gets into the frame in his natural, unconstrained state. "Weaver" - a film dedicated to the workers of one of the Soviet factories. Work on the film was suspended even during the filming. But later, as a director, Marina Goldovskaya was always faithful to this method.

Filmography

1. "Raisa Nemchinskaya".
2. "Yuri Zavadsky."
3. "Arkady Raikin".
4. "Test".
5. "The Archangel's Muzhik."
6. "Power Solovetskaya."
7. "Mikhail Ulyanov".
8. "Taste of freedom."
9. "From the Abyss".
10. The Prince.

The genre of the film portrait takes a special place in Goldovskaya's work. In the creation of her paintings she was ahead of many colleagues. She used the latest achievements of technology in her work, which she later wrote in her book Technique and Creativity.

Among her projects there are several works devoted to outstanding figures of culture and art. Among the created Goldin portraits: "Mikhail Ulyanov", "Oleg Efremov", "Anastasia Tsvetaeva."

Restructuring

For these years, so important in the history of the country, the peak of the popularity of the Goldovskaya films fell. Soviet people finally got the opportunity to know the truth about themselves and the state they live in. The golden hour of Goldovski came. It was at this time that the picture "Arkhangelsk muzhik" was created.

In 1988, the screens "Solovetskaya Power" was published, which tells about the formation of one of the first camps in the USSR. The premiere of the picture was a real event. Before in the country such films were not filmed.

IN USA

In the early nineties Marina Goldovskaya, whose photo is in the article, went to California to teach. But in those years she also made documentary films. There were created such films as "Lucky Born in Russia", "Mirror Shards". Perhaps, on the emotional, spiritual level, these documentary films are the most horrible and frank, but at the same time light story, telling about the tragedy of ordinary people in a difficult perestroika era - not the heroes of time, but ordinary citizens. The films that Marina Goldovskaya created in the last decade of the last century are realistic stories about how the inhabitants of the post-Soviet space survived, preserved humanity and fidelity to their ideals.

In the pictures of this director there are revelations of people. The stories are told by an unusual cinematic language. The characters seem to live a few days of their lives in front of the camera. This is a kind of condensed chronicle of the everyday life of people who in the early nineties had to adapt to capitalism, which proved to be more terrible for them than war, natural disasters.

The Prince

Marina Goldovskaya's paintings can not leave anyone indifferent. In 1999, the famous film "Prince" appeared on the screens. In the first minutes before the audience there is a generalizing image of the country. And against the background of the endless Russian winter landscape, a gloomy funeral procession is shown. These episodes Goldovskaya used as a metaphor - sad, tragic. Despite this, the "Prince" is a film that along with a few in Goldovskaya's work can be attributed to a light, even somewhat optimistic movie. This picture introduces the Russian viewer to the land on which he lives. When you watch, you get the impression that the movie has appeared on its own. And the director has only to follow his characters with the camera.

"Bitter taste of freedom"

In 2011, a film about Anna Politkovskaya appeared on the screens. "Bitter taste of freedom" was awarded at the festival in Montreal. The picture consists of separate, seemingly unrelated episodes. In the film, for example, the material was shot in early September 2004, when Politkovskaya on the way to Beslan received a severe poisoning and barely survived. After the journalist came to, she gave an interview, presented in the film.

In the picture Goldovskaya there are video materials both taken during the life of the journalist, and after her death. The film was created in a characteristic for the Gold style. There is no voiceover. The director does not express his opinion on the role of Politkovskaya in Russian public life. In the film, only a few shots from the life of the main and only heroine. The director leaves the possibility for the viewer to form his own opinion about the woman who devoted her life to helping the victims of the Chechen war.

Goldovskaya is a cinematographer, whose work is studied by Western historians. Her films are understandable both in Russia and abroad. They are sufficiently emotional, observations, stories about the fate of ordinary people. And with the help of all these details, the director expresses his opinion about what happened to the country in the last decades of the last century. Goldovskaya's paintings can be called diaries about the hope and confusion that engulfed Russians in the nineties, and did not leave many today.