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Vera Stroyeva

Vera Stroyeva

Soviet film director (1903–1991)

Vera Pavlovna Stroyeva (Russian: Ве́ра Па́вловна Стро́ева, (née Richter);[1] 21 September 1903 – 26 August 1991) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.[2] Between 1926 and 1983, she directed fifteen films and wrote ten screenplays.[1] Her film adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[3][4] Many of her films are musicals or adaptations of operas and feature heavy influence from socialist realism.[4]

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Stroyeva was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honor, Honored Worker of the Arts of the Kazakh SSR [ru], and People's Artist of the RSFSR.[1]

She died in Moscow on 26 August 1991.[5]

Filmography

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References

  1. [1]
    "Строева, Вера Павловна". PeopleLife.Ru. Archived from the original on 20 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. [2]
    Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 712–713. ISBN 1442268425.
  3. [3]
    "Festival de Cannes: Boris Godunov". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  4. [4]
    Rollberg, Peter. Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008. ISBN 0810862689.
  5. [5]
    "Строева Вера Павловна". Онлайн-кинотеатр "Мосфильма" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 May 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2023.


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