Biography
Kira Muratova entered the history of the cinema as the author of the "wrong movie", the Paradox films and distinguished itself with a difficult creative biography. The director raised acute social topics, turned to the plots of cruelty, loudly reasoned about the boundaries of morality, and one of his favorite motives - hell on Earth. Kiru Georgievna Critics accused of "Chernukh", but the prepared viewer with each new film became more and more in love with this talented woman who had chosen the copyright field.Childhood and youth
Kira Muratova was born in a difficult family living in the town of Soroka in Bessarabia (Romania). Father Yuri Aleksandrovich Korotkov before the war with the Germans worked as secretary of the underground committee of the Communist Party Romania, and in 1941, as part of the partisan detachment died.
Mom Natalia Isaakovna, a Jew for nationality, since 1928 he was in the Communist Party of Romania. After the war, the woman took the chair of the Minister of Culture of the Republic, which became part of the USSR.
In an interview, Kira Georgievna recalled that he often had Mom at work. The ministry was assigned a separate room to view foreign films, and especially the special pass, which the girl received from the parent was becoming especially remembered.
A piece of paper opened the doors of any cinema of Bucharest, and little Cyrus often after school ran to sessions. At that time, in the interruptions in the foyer of cinemas, the public was entertained by numbers of magicians and singers. Once a girl saw the "live" celebrity - Peter Leshchenko and went to the impression for a long time.
After graduation, young Kira went to the capital of Russia, where he entered the Faculty of Philology in Moscow State University. After some time, I realized that she was manitating cinema, and decided to try happiness in Vgika. The girl came on the directorial, hitting the wing of the famous masters of the movie Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.
Films
In 1961, Kira Muratova as the director joined the colleagues of the Odessa film studio. The first time worked in a pair with her husband Alexander Muratov, with whom the fate joined the institute. A couple brought the world of paintings "At Cool Yar" (1962) and "our honest bread" (1964).
The solo, the beginning of the director debuted in 1967. The viewer received a brilliant work that leaves no one indifferent, "short meetings." The touching melodrama about the love triangle is notable for several points.
The Muratov itself was starred in the tape, the main male image was performed by the legendary Vladimir Vysotsky, and Nina Ruslanova was played the second most female role, seemingly seeking Soviet screens for the first time. The picture came out with a limited edition, a full-fledged show happened only 20 years later - then they appreciated the solo creation of the director of more than four million Russians.
The next picture "Long Wires" (1971) was completely unhappy. The leadership of the master's creativity studio did not appreciate the work of the work of two years, as a result, the show was moved down to restructuring. Kira Muratova, removed from the directors, could not stand the oppression and left Odessa.
The woman settled in Leningrad, where "Lenfilm" film studios began to create a tape "Changing the White Light", which pleased with the audience in 1978. Penetrant, beautiful story gathered Nina Ruslanov, Alexey Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko on the set. After viewing it becomes clear from where Renata Litvinova, the faithful fan of Kira, drew inspiration for the first steps in the director.
Censorship pursued Muratov on his heels. The scandalous turned out to be the film "Among the White Stones" (1983), from where mercilessly cut out dismissal things. Yes, so that Kira Georgievna refused to indicate his name in the credits.
Only to the sunset of the era of the Soviet Union, the director sighed with relief, having received the opportunity to create the way as he tells the heart. With her light hand on the screens a "change of fate" and a two-seater drama with an acute social tint "Asthenic syndrome" appeared.
The last film produced a furor in circles of critics and spectators - and content, and composition, and special feed intakes (one piece removed on the black and white film, the other on color). In addition, for the first time in the Russian film, the director allowed to sound from the screen of obscene vocabulary. However, the attacks in their homeland passed the background, because the main thing that Muratov reached - recognition abroad: the work received a special prize of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival.
The next noticeable work was already born already in the midst of restructuring. In 1994, Kira Muratova first filmed a rapid Renat Litvinov in "hobbies", which became the Museum of Director. And the roles for her initially in the scenario was not, Kira later came up with an image specifically. Muratova told about the first impression of actress:
"We met at the Arsenal Festival in Riga. I immediately thought it should be removed, she had wonderful and appearance, and a manner of talking. "This picture is calm, light, but ambiguous, noted by the Nika Prize. The actress with blond hair in the future Kira will remove several times: Renata shines in the Three History thriller, which was nominated on the Berlin "Golden Bear", in the Drama Comedy "Adjuster", tragomedy "Two in one", social drama about youngsters Storms "Melody for scarmer". All films disappeared certain awards and premiums.
In 2012, Kira Muratov presented fans to the comedy "Eternal Return", in which Oleg Tabakov, Alla Demidov, Sergey Makovetsky, together with Litvinova, and Litvinova. This work Kira Georgievna put a fatty point in the director's career, stating on the care of all.
Kira Muratova also worked as an actress with other directories. The woman appeared in the role of revolutionary in the painting "Dangerous Tour" of the director George Jungwald-Hilkevich. In 1986, she was invited to the drama "Garden of Desires" Ali Khamraev, where Kira was reincarnated in a witch.
Personal life
Kira Georgievna was married twice. With the first husband, director and screenwriter Alexander Muratov, met in student years, but in the 70s marriage broke up. The couple raised the daughter of Marianna, who tragically died. The director's couple divorced after the debut film of Kira.
The second husband, with whom Muratov lived until the last days, also from the creative environment - St. Petersburg artist and screenwriter Eugene Golubneko.
Uncompromising and unbearable on the set, Kira Georgievna in life was a calm, balanced man, able to get along with anyone. The woman loved to eat tasty, but the food chose a simple. Over the years, Muratov began to look in the direction of vegetarianism, but it never decided to join the ranks of Vegans.
Death
Recent years, Kira Georgievna lived in Odessa and almost did not go into light.
"I've been a lot where I was, and now I don't want anywhere. I do not want to fly by the plane, and the train, too, "she confessed.The journalists who visited the director, noted that her apartment is amazing - reminds the museum in which the artist's workshop was found. Muratova rarely agreed on the interview, the memoirs of the woman writing also refused.
In the summer of 2017, the film world flew out the news that Kira Georgievna became a member of the American Film Academy, received the right to choose who is worthy of the prestigious Award "Oscar-2018".
June 6, 2018 Kira Muratova did not. This was reported in social networks by producer Yuri Mintovanov.
Filmography
- 1967 - "Short Meetings"
- 1971 - "Long Wires"
- 1979 - "Knowing the White Light"
- 1983 - "Among the gray stones"
- 1987 - "Change of Fate"
- 1989 - "Asthenic Syndrome"
- 1992 - "Sensitive Policeman"
- 1994 - "Hobbies"
- 1997 - "Three Stories"
- 2001 - "Secondary People"
- 2002 - "Chekhov's motives"
- 2004 - "Admitter"
- 2007 - "Two in one"
- 2009 - "Melody for scarmer"
- 2012 - "Eternal Return"