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Soviet and Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya died in Jurmala at the age of 80. This is reported by “Izvestia” with reference to the son of Goldovskaya, Sergei Livnev.
Director Vitaly Mansky said that in recent years she had been seriously ill and passed away on March 20 in Jurmala.
Goldovskaya was born on July 15, 1941 in Moscow, in 1963 she graduated from the camera department of VGIK, worked as a director and cameraman in the Ekran TO, from 1963 to 1994 she was a director of documentaries.
Marina Goldovskaya made documentaries about the Soviet surgeon Alexander Vishnevsky, about the actors Oleg Efremov, Mikhail Ulyanov and Arkady Raikin, as well as about the camp on the Solovetsky Islands and many others. For the film “The Arkhangelsk Man” in 1986 about the first Soviet farmer Nikolai Sivkov, the director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.
In 2011, Marina Goldovskaya released the documentary The Bitter Taste of Freedom, dedicated to the life and professional work of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Marina Goldovskaya is a member of the Academy of Russian Television and the American Film Academy, as well as the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR and the Union of Journalists of the USSR, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR and Doctor of Arts.
Source: Rosbalt

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