Kosheverova N.N. (1902-1990), film director

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KOSHEVEROVA Nadezhda Nikolaevna (1902, St. Petersburg - 1990, Leningrad), film director, Honoured Worker of Arts in 1966. After leaving the acting school attached to the Free Comedy Theatre in Petrograd, she appeared on stage at various Leningrad theatres in 1923-28. Working at Lenfilm Studio from 1929, she produced 18 films including lyrical comedies such as Arinka directed together with Y. Muzykant in 1939, Tiger Girl together with A. V. Ivanovsky in 1954, and Be Careful, Grandma in 1960. She also filmed a number of fairy tales. Cinderella directed together with M. G. Shapiro in 1947 was especially renowned. Donkey's Hide of 1982 was awarded a prize at the First Skazka Festival, a festival of fantasies, in Kiev. She lived at 55 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue. Buried at Komarovskoe Cemetery.

References: Боровков В. Надежда Кошеверова // 20 режиссерских биографий. М., 1978. С. 66-81; Зачем нужны сказки?: Четыре беседы о киносказке: Н. Кошеверова - Н. Горницкая // Фильмы. Судьбы. Голоса: Ленингр. экран: Ст. Творч. портреты. Интервью. Публ. Л., 1990. С. 229-242.

I. V. Sepman. Ivanovsky Alexander Viktorovich
Kosheverova Nadezhda Nikolaevna
Muzykant Yury Alexandrovich
Shapiro Mikhail G.
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 55
Боровков В. Надежда Кошеверова // 20 режиссерских биографий. М., 1978
Зачем нужны сказки?: Четыре беседы о киносказке: Н. Кошеверова — Н. Горницкая // Фильмы. Судьбы. Голоса: Ленингр. экран: Статьи. Творч. портр. Интервью. Публикации. Л., 1990 Lenfilm, Film Studio
Komorovskoe Cemetery