Renata Litvinova | |
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| Born | 12 January 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | Film actress, director, screenwriter |
| Spouses | Alexander Antipov (m. 1996;div. 1997)Leonid Dobrovsky (m. 2001;div. 2007) |
| Children | 1 daughter |
| Website | http://renatalitvinova.ru/ |
Renata Muratovna Litvinova (born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter. [1]
Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovich Vergazov and a Russian mother, Alisa Mikhailovna Litvinova. [2] Both her parents were doctors. [3] They divorced when Renata was just one year old. After school, she entered VGIK in 1984 and graduated in 1989. [4] She attended the same year as fellow screenwriters and directors Roman Kachanov and Arkady Vysotsky. [2] It is here where she worked on her first film as a screenwriter for the film The Much Loved Rita. The Last Meeting with Her (1988). [5]
She began her film career as a screenwriter, writing films from 1988 to 1998. None of her earlier projects such as Truck Drivers 2 (1992) achieved any critical or commercial acclaim. [2] She was discovered by fellow director Kira Muratova in 1994 after Muratova had come across Litvinova's thesis she had written for VGIK. Meeting one another at a local festival, Muratova changed her mind and instead wanted Litvinova to star in one of her films. [2] Litvinova auditioned for the role of the female protagonist Violet but was deemed unsuitable. However, Muratova wanted her in the film and allowed her to write a role for herself. Litvinova wrote herself into the film as a nurse. [2] She continued to write screenplays after her role, which included both Male Revelations (1995) and Principled and Compassionate View (1995). The latter film won the Jury prize at the "Window to Europe" Film festival and was showcased in a number of other festivals around the world such as Japan and Germany. [6] She collaborated with Muratova again in 1997 and 1998, writing two screenplays that Muratova directed. Litvinova's screenplay Three Stories was turned into a film in 1997, she also played the role of Opha in it. Her story To Own and Belong was adapted into the critically acclaimed crime film Country of the Deaf in 1998. [2] In 2017 Renata made her full debut in theatre with her own piece called "The North Wind" in Moscow Art Theatre. She was the director and screenwriter, as well as she played the key role in "The North Wind".
By 2022, Litvinova has gained a status of one of the leading Russian actresses both in TV and theatre. [7] [8] In 2000, she grew popular for her role of Albino Crow in the TV series The Border. [4] She wrote screenplays for films sparingly after this role and starred in all of the films she wrote. Litvinova became acclaimed in the mid-2000s when she was nominated for her roles in Sky. Plane. Girl. (2002), The Tuner (2004) and I'm Not Hurt (2006). [9] In the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre, Litvinova played Lyubov Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, she also played in Le Shaga written by Marguerite Duras and staged by Marie-Louise Bischofberger, ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ by Agatha Christie. [7]
As a director, Litvinova tried herself in many fields. She made her directorial debut in 2000 with the documentary There is No Death For Me. The film focused on the experiences of Litvinova's favorite Soviet Era actresses and gave insight into her views on their stories. [10] As with her screenwriting, she directed sparingly in between her acting roles, directing six films since 2000. She directed her first feature film in 2004, The Goddess , which she also wrote and starred in. [11] In 2006, she directed her first short film, Rado. [11] Litvinova made her first foray into concert films in 2008 when she directed the film Green Theatre in Zemfira. The film was created using footage from a concert of one of Litvinova's friends, musical artist Zemfira Ramazanova. [12] The film won "music film of the year" from independent music award show "Steppenwolf". [13] The two collaborated again in 2010 to create another Ramazanova concert film directed by Litvinova called Moscow. Crokus/Arrow. [11] Finally, Ramazanova served as the composer on Litvinova's second full-length feature film Rita's Last FairyTale (2012), which deals with "universal themes of love, hate and search for love." [14] [15]
Through the years, Litvinova directed more than 15 video clips for Russian musicians and singers, since 2005 they mostly collaborated with Zemfira. [7] In 2021, she directed a 13-minute promo film for Gucci. [16]
She lent her voice to the film $8.50 (1999) to be used as a voiceover for the character Xenia who was played by Natalia Adreichenko. Her voice appeared in a number of other films in the 2000s, including Frog's Paradise (2007) and Peregrine (2008). [11]
On TV, Litvinova hosted several author's programs on style, history of fashion and cinematography. Litvinova had also emerged as a designer and fashion icon of her own. A friend and collaborator of Demna Gvasalia; she also worked on Gosha Rubchinskiy's film, 'The Day of My Death'. [17] [18]
Her first marriage was to producer Alexander Antipov, a union that lasted from 1996 to 1997. She then married businessman Leonid Dobrovsky, with whom she had her daughter Ulyana. The couple divorced in 2007. Litvinova came out as bisexual in 2021. [19]
In February 2022, she opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine, [20] and left Russia. [21] In the meantime, she had decided to reside with her partner Zemfira in Paris. [22]
| Year | Film [11] | |||||||
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| Director | Screenwriter | Voice Actor | Producer | Actress | Role | Notes | ||
| 1990 | Leningrad. November. |  | ||||||
| 1991 | Not Love | | ||||||
| 1992 | Tractor Drivers 2 | | ||||||
| 1994 | Passions | | | nurse Lily | ||||
| 1995 | Male Revelations | | ||||||
| 1995 | Principled and Compassionate View | | ||||||
| 1997 | Three Stories | | | Opha | ||||
| 1998 | Country of the Deaf | | ||||||
| 1999 | The Right to Choose | | Nika | |||||
| 1999 | $8.50 | | Xenia (role played by Natalia Adreichenko) | |||||
| 2000 | The Border | | Albino Crow | |||||
| 2000 | There is No Death For Me | | Documentary film | |||||
| 2001 | The Black Room | | dealer in a casino | |||||
| 2001 | Berlin Express | | intelligence agent | |||||
| 2001 | April | | Nastasia | |||||
| 2002 | Sky. Plane. Girl. | | | | Lara the stewardess | |||
| 2003 | The Suitcases of Tulse Luper (Part III) | | Constance Bulitsky | |||||
| 2004 | The Tuner | | Lina | |||||
| 2004 | The Goddess | | | | | investigator Faina | ||
| 2004 | Saboteur | | chief of station | |||||
| 2005 | Dead Man's Bluff | | waitress/secretary Katya | |||||
| 2005 | Vocal Parallels | | entertainer | |||||
| 2006 | Nine Months | | ||||||
| 2006 | Tin Plate | | wife of a nude man | |||||
| 2006 | It Doesn't Hurt Me | | Tata | |||||
| 2006 | Rado | | Short Film | |||||
| 2007 | Two in One | | | Alissa | ||||
| 2007 | Cruelty | | | Zoya Andreyevna Vyatkina | ||||
| 2007 | Frog's Paradise | | ||||||
| 2008 | To Catch a Brunette | | woman in the photograph - Masha's Mom | |||||
| 2008 | Peregrine | | Gala | |||||
| 2008 | The Adventures of Alyonushka and Eremu | | Aunt Yefrosinya | |||||
| 2008 | Green Theatre in Zemfira | | | Full-length concert film | ||||
| 2009 | Jolly Fellows | | Eugenia, wife of Rosa | |||||
| 2009 | Ordered to be Destroyed! Operation "Chinese Box" | | Charlotte | |||||
| 2009 | Melody for a Street Organ | | Kitty | |||||
| 2009 | The Golden Section | | Katyusha, the owner of the photo studio | |||||
| 2010 | Rorrima Bo's Magic Cup | | senior pioneer leader, witch | |||||
| 2010 | Diamonds. Theft. | | woman with a big nose | |||||
| 2010 | Moscow. Crocus/Arrow | | ||||||
| 2011 | Generation P | | Alla | |||||
| 2011 | Heart of a Boomerang | | enchantress | |||||
| 2012 | Rita's Last Fairy Tale | | | | | Tanya Neubivko | ||
| 2012 | The Girl and Death | | Nina | |||||
| 2012 | Eternal Return | | She | |||||
| 2014 | Concrete Gene | | Chief editor of "Our Crime" | |||||
| 2015 | About Love | | lecturer | |||||
| 2016 | The Day of My Death | | | | not credited | Short Film | ||
| 2018 | ANGST | | Frau Doktor Oberhaupt | |||||
| 2020 | The North Wind | | | | | Margarita |
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