Woman with an Editing Bench

Overview

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

Cast

Leeanna Walsman

Elizaveta Svilova

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Richard James Allen

Dziga Vertov

Marcus Graham

Boris Shumyatsky

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Cat Smith

Baker

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Ivan K. Germano

Vertov's cameraman