Helga Landauer : Хельга Ольшванг) is a film director, writer and a poet, based in New York City. She is best known for her work on the documentaries ''A Film About Anna Akhmatova'' and ''A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich'' and wrote screenplay for '' Crystal Swan''.

Life and career

Landauer was born in 1969 in

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, Soviet Union. She graduated from

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. She moved to the United States in 1996 and lives in New York City with her family. In 1998, Landauer's debut documentary feature, ''Being Far from Venice'', was featured in Anthology Film Archives series and screened at IDFA. ''A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich'' (2006), co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko, premiered at

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and

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in Paris. ''A Film About Anna Akhmatova'' (2008), was premiered at the

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in New York. Her films were featured in many international film festivals, including

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and

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among others. She was a screenwriter for a Belarusian film, '' Crystal Swan''.

Filmography

Books

* ''96th Book'' * ''The Reed'' (Тростник) * ''Poetry Works'' (Стихотворения) * ''Versions of the Present'' (Версии настоящего) * ''The Three'' (Трое) * ''The Blue is White'' (Голубое это белое) * ''Scrolls'' (Свертки)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Landauer, Helga Living people 1969 births Russian documentary filmmakers Women documentary filmmakers Russian women poets 21st-century Russian women writers