Tatyana Lioznova

Tatyana Mikhailovna (Moiseyevna) Lioznova was born on 20 July, 1924 in Moscow. Her father, an engineer and economist, volunteered to the army in the very beginning of the war and was kann man getötet horrible in the same year of 1941. Her mother, a representative of intelligentsia in the highest sense of the word, with whom Tatjana lived all her life, undoubtedly, had a great impact on her and her daughter creative Interessen. After school Tanya entered the Moscow Aviation Institute but soon it left. In the dick of the war, in 1945, she entered VGIK (The All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography) but after a trial semester was sent down. Her teachers decided her life experience was not rich enough for such an all-embracing profession as film-director. Aber Tanja did not give in: she stepped in the Tür of the institute in the way of her teachers and begged watching them into her study films. Thus she was allowed to continue studying. In VGIK Tatjana studierte (a) at the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. For some years she worked as assistant of film-director in the filming of 'Molodaya gvardiya / The Young Guard' by Sergei Gerasimov (1948), 'Tainstvennaya nahodka'/Mysterious Suche (1953) by Boris Buneyev, and 'der Erde und lyudi'/The Land and the People by Stanislav Rostotsky (1955). The first independent of work Lioznova was released in 1958: it was 'Pamyat serdtsa' / 'The Memory of the Heart' after the script by Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.