Vera Stroyeva

Vera Pavlovna Stroyeva (Russian: Ве́ра Па́вловна Стро́ева, (née Richter); 21 September 1903 – 26 August 1991) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Between 1926 and 1983, she directed fifteen films and wrote ten screenplays. Her film adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Many of her films are musicals or adaptations of operas and feature heavy influence from socialist realism. Stroyeva was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honor, Honored Worker of the Arts of the Kazakh SSR, and People's Artist of the RSFSR. She died in Moscow on 26 August 1991.