Elizaveta Svilova

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera and appears in the film. She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature." She covered the opening of Auschwitz death camp in Poland by the Red Army in January 1945. She filmed a documentary, notably with reenactments, titled "Auschwitz", part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War, the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (From Friday 9 January 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015) at Paris Memorial de la Shoah.