Woman with an Editing Bench

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Leeanna Walsman Elizaveta Svilova

Richard James Allen Dziga Vertov

Marcus Graham Boris Shumyatsky

Cat Smith Baker

Ivan K. Germano Vertov's cameraman