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 Turovskaya in 2007 | |
| Born | Maya Iosifovna Turovskaya 27 October 1924 |
| Died | 4 March 2019 (aged 94) Munich, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Theatre and film critic, writer |
| Years active | 1948–2019 |
| Awards | Nika Award (2007) |
Maya Iosifovna Turovskaya (Russian: Майя Иосифовна Туровская; 27 October 1924 – 4 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian, screenwriter, and culturologist.[1]
She was awarded the Nika Award in 2007 for her contribution to cinematographic sciences and criticism.[2][3]
Biography
Maya Turovskaya was born in Kharkov. In 1947 she graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, and in 1948 – the theater department of GITIS, where she was a student of Abram Efros. She became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1960, and a member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers in 1966.[1]
In 1969, it was the first time since 1949 that it was recruited by a research associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.[4] From 1973 to 2019, she worked as a leading researcher at the Institute of Theory, History of Cinema.
She has been published in Theater, Soviet Screen, The Art of Cinema, Kinovedcheskie Zapiski, Moscow Observer and other publications. The author of the retrospective of the Cinema of the Totalitarian Epoch at the International Film Festival in Moscow in 1989. She authored a number of documentaries, including Mikhail Romm's famous film Triumph Over Violence (co-authored with Romm and Khanyutin), and numerous monographs devoted to theater and cinema.[5] She completed her doctorate in Art History in 1983.[1]
From 1992 until her death in 2019 at age 94 she lived in Munich.[6] She died on 4 March 2019.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Turovskaya, Maya (20 June 2012). "Воспоминание о немецком кино" [Memoirs of German cinema]. seance.ru. St. Petersburg: Masterskaya Seance. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^ Майя в зале
- ^ "Названы номинанты кинопремии за 2007 год". Kommersant. 21 February 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^ Советский в квадрате
- ^ "Майя Туровская. Обыкновенный фашизм, или Сорок лет спустя". Archived from the original on 12 April 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ Интервью с Майей Туровской
- ^ Kut, Andry (16 March 2019). "Died writer Ordinary fascism | Russian news EN".
External links
- Maya Turovskaya at IMDb
- Майя Туровская на сайте журнала «Сеанс»
- Майя Туровская: Россия любит силу, это компенсация всех унижений
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