Women Behind the Camera: A Postscript to the 100th Anniversary of Film Director Tatiana Lioznova’s Birth
.3/13/2025-7/27/2025
Exhibition
Let’s take a look at storyboards and sketches for films, behind-the-scenes photographs, screen tests, posters, various documents, including director’s scripts, and other artifacts from the realm of cinema.
Location: Legt gallery
Age: 18+
500 ₽ - Main
250 ₽ - Privilege
Let’s explore the history of the Russian film industry from the perspective of women directors of the past and present. One of the biggest names is Tatiana Lioznova, a film director and screenwriter, best known for creating an iconic Soviet television series, Seventeen Moments of Spring. Its protagonist, intelligence officer Max Otto von Stierlitz, has been one of the most popular figures in Soviet and post-Soviet pop culture for the past 50 years, inspiring numerous parodies, jokes, and memes.
The exhibition celebrates several generations of women filmmakers: from Olga Preobrazhenskaya, whose career in film began before the 1917 Russian Revolution, to Lioznova’s contemporaries such as Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and Dinara Asanova, to the modern-day talent. The films showcased in the exhibition make it clear that the “women’s cinema” of the 20th century is a crucial part of the world’s cultural heritage.
The show comprises more than 200 exhibits, including storyboard sketches, on-set photographs, screen tests, posters, various documents such as director’s scripts, and other artifacts from the realm of cinema — on loan from private collections and major state museums and archives. These include the State Central Cinema Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Historical Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, ROSPHOTO, the Russian State Film Fund, Gorky Film Studio, Mosfilm, and Lenfilm. The exhibition was organized with the support of its general partner, the State Central Cinema Museum.
Сurated by: Nina Gomiashvili and Vyacheslav Shmyrov
Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center: Maria Gadas
Image: Film director Tatiana Lioznova and actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov on the set of the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring, 1972. Photo by: Arkady Goltsin
The exhibition celebrates several generations of women filmmakers: from Olga Preobrazhenskaya, whose career in film began before the 1917 Russian Revolution, to Lioznova’s contemporaries such as Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and Dinara Asanova, to the modern-day talent. The films showcased in the exhibition make it clear that the “women’s cinema” of the 20th century is a crucial part of the world’s cultural heritage.
The show comprises more than 200 exhibits, including storyboard sketches, on-set photographs, screen tests, posters, various documents such as director’s scripts, and other artifacts from the realm of cinema — on loan from private collections and major state museums and archives. These include the State Central Cinema Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Historical Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, ROSPHOTO, the Russian State Film Fund, Gorky Film Studio, Mosfilm, and Lenfilm. The exhibition was organized with the support of its general partner, the State Central Cinema Museum.
Сurated by: Nina Gomiashvili and Vyacheslav Shmyrov
Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center: Maria Gadas
Image: Film director Tatiana Lioznova and actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov on the set of the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring, 1972. Photo by: Arkady Goltsin
