Vera Stroyeva
Vera Pavlovna Stroyeva ((née Richter); 21 September 1903 – 26 August 1991) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Between 1926 and 1983, she directed fifteen films and wrote ten screenplays. 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.
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Vera Stroyeva
- Name
- Vera Stroyeva
- Birth Name
- Vera Pavlovna Richter
- Born
- 21 September 1903
- Birthplace
- Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 26 August 1991
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russian Empire
- Honours
- Order of the Badge of Honour · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · People's Artist of the RSFSR · Order of Friendship of Peoples
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Many of her films are musicals or adaptations of operas and feature heavy influence from socialist realism. Stroyeva was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honor, Honored Worker of the Arts of the Kazakh SSR, and People's Artist of the RSFSR. She died in Moscow on 26 August 1991.
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• Name — Vera Stroyeva • Birth Name — Vera Pavlovna Richter • Born — 21 September 1903 • Birthplace — Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 26 August 1991 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1927–1983
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• Film — Year — Director — Writer • Buket fialok — 1983 • Serdtse Rossii — 1971 • My, russkiy narod — 1966 • Khovanshchina — 1959 • Polyushko, pole — 1957 • Variety Stars — 1954 • Boris Godunov — 1954 • The Grand Concert — 1951 • Maryte — 1947 • Boyevoy kinosbornik 12 (segment "Syn boytsa/Son of a Fighter") — 1942 • V poiskakh radosti — 1940 • Generation of Victors — 1936 • Petersburg Nights — 1934 • Chelovek bez futlyara — 1932 • Pravo ottsov — 1931 • A Jew at War — 1930 • Dve zhenshchiny — 1929 • His Excellency — 1928 • Seeds of Freedom — 1928 • Gospoda Skotininy (scenario) — 1927
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• Award — Year — Won • People's Artist of the RSFR — 1973 • Golden Lion — 1955 • Mussolini Cup — 1935
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