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name: "Elizaveta Svilova"
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roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 September 1900"
died: "11 November 1975"
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updated: "2026-09-17T04:36:51.986263+00:00"
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# Elizaveta Svilova

Editor. Born 5 September 1900 in Moscow, USSR. Died 11 November 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 September 1900, Moscow, USSR
- **Died:** 11 November 1975
- **Also known as:** Yelizaveta Svilova, Е. Свилова, Елизавета Вертова
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4410713, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841294/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1057498

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Man with a Movie Camera*](https://film.one/film/man-with-a-movie-camera.md) (91)

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## Biography

Elizaveta Svilova (also credited as Yelizaveta Svilova) was a Russian film editor and director. Born Elizaveta Schnitt in Moscow on 5 September 1900, she began working as a film editor for Pathé at the age of fourteen and later edited features at Goskino.

She collaborated extensively with her husband Dziga Vertov as editor and assistant director on films including *Man with a Movie Camera* (1929), *Enthusiasm* (1930) and *Three Songs of Lenin* (1934). From the late 1930s she directed and edited over one hundred documentaries and newsreels, including wartime works such as *For You at the Front* (1942) and *The Fall of Berlin* (1945), the latter of which earned a Stalin Prize in 1946. She died in Moscow on 11 November 1975.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Man with a Movie Camera* (1929), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/man-with-a-movie-camera.md)

## Also known for

- *Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas* (1930), Assistant Director

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