Pera Atasheva

Pera Atasheva

1900-11-18
64 (1965-09-23)
Moscow, Russian Empire

Pera Moiseyevna Atasheva was a Soviet journalist, translator, film critic, actress, and documentary filmmaker. As the executrix of Sergei Eisenstein, she tirelessly worked to preserve his legacy.

Moscow, Russian Empire

Pera Moiseyevna Atasheva was a Soviet journalist, translator, film critic, actress, and documentary filmmaker. As the executrix of Sergei Eisenstein, she tirelessly worked to preserve his legacy.

Most Known for...

Movie Picture

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film 1968 (5.9)

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.
Movie Picture

The Magic Seed 1942 (4.8)

A fairytale about two kids who got a magic seed which can feed all the people...
Movie Picture

Metall 1933

Directed by Hans Richter.