Kira Muratova is a famous director who has her own personal opinion not only about cinema, but also about public life. Her life was not easy, but interesting, and her films tell about this in their own way.
Childhood and study
Kira Georgievna Muratova was born in 1934 in a small town in Bessarabia (at that time on the territory of the state of Romania). Her father, Yuri Alexandrovich Korotkov, was the secretary of the Romanian Communist Party. His mother, nee Reznik, worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and she wrote several books on caring for newborns.
During the Great Patriotic War, Kira and her mother were evacuated to Tashkent, and their father was shot.
In 1952, Kira entered the philological faculty of Moscow State University, but the science of language seemed too boring for the girl. Therefore, she continued her studies at the directing department of VGIKA in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov.
Director's work
In 1961, Kira Muratova was hired by the Odessa Film Studio. Here she met her future husband Alexander Igorevich Muratov, also a director and screenwriter. At first, the noble man helped the young girl with her work. Together they shot two films - "At the Steep Yar" and "Our Honest Bread". But soon Kira got accustomed to the profession and began to work independently. At the Odessa Film Studio, she released two films - "Short Meetings" and "Long Farewell". Both of them were a kind of innovation in Soviet cinema, since for the first time they drew attention to the inner experiences of the heroes, complex and ambiguous. The Soviet government reacted with distrust to the works of the young director, and the film "Long Farewell" was shelved until better times.
Kira Muratova was distinguished by her quarrelsome character, so she was forced to leave the Odessa film studio and move to Leningrad. At the same time, Kira met her second husband, artist Yevgeny Golubenko. He co-authored her next films - "Change of Fate", "Asthenic Syndrome" (was awarded a special prize of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival and the "Nika" Prize), "Eternal Return". After the premiere of the last film, Kira Muratova announced that she was leaving the cinema. She always had a special outlook on life.
Personal life
Kira Muratova was married twice. Her first husband is director Alexander Igorevich Muratov, her second husband is the famous Odessa artist Yevgeny Golubenko. Both spouses helped Kira in the profession and were her best friends. The only child of Kira Muratova's daughter Marianna (her father is Alexander Muratov) died tragically.
Opinion on the conflict in Ukraine
Throughout her life, Kira Muratova changed three citizenships - Romanian, Soviet, and after the collapse of the USSR - Ukrainian. The director considered Ukraine the most important country in her life. Therefore, in the event of an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Kira Muratova supported Ukraine. She wrote that the war between fraternal countries must be stopped, but given the current realities, she does not know how to do this, and she is very grieving over this.
