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Woman with an Editing Bench

7 15 mins

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

Keywords

soviet union biography based on true story filmmaking russian history censorship film editor woman director stalinism 1930s cinema history women in film soviet union history film censorship short film women's history ussr female filmmaker australian

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Ivan K. Germano

Vertov's cameraman