
Known for
Directing
Born
July 24, 1881
Birthplace
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
October 30, 1971 (aged 90)
Russian film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya (24.07.1881, Moscow – 30.10.1971, ibid.) was a Russian and Soviet stage and film actress, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue; she was one of the first female film directors in the world, and the first female film director in Russia. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935).
Between 1901 and 1906, Preobrazhenskaya attended the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, after which she worked in provincial theatres. In 1913, she made her film debut in The Keys to Happiness, as Mania Yeltsova. One of her first works as a director was The Peasant Girl (1916); Preobrazhenskaya worked on this film alongside her husband, the dire...
1941
Director
1939
Director, Writer
1935
Director
1931
Writer, Director
1929
Director
1928
Writer, Director
1927
Director
1927
Director, Screenplay
1926
Director, Screenplay
1924
Co-Director
1924
Director
1919
Director
1917
Director, Screenplay
1916
as Iza, street harpist
1915
as Elena Strakhova
1915
as Miss Julie
1915
as Natasha Rostova
1915
as Anna Chechevanskaya
1913
as Manya Eltsova