Woman with an Editing Bench

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.

Director: Karen Pearlman

Cast

Leeanna Walsman

Elizaveta Svilova

R

Richard James Allen

Dziga Vertov

Marcus Graham

Boris Shumyatsky

C

Cat Smith

Baker

I

Ivan K. Germano

Vertov's cameraman