Leda Semyonova

film editor

Leda Semyonova was born on 25 June 1939 in Leningrad. In 1967 she graduated from the Department of Philology at the Leningrad University.

Since 1969 she has been working as assistant film editor at the Lenfilm Studio. She has done film editing for over than thirty films.

She has been working with Alexander Sokurov since 1983.

Film editor for the following Sokurov's films:

Documentaries:
1978–1988 — “Maria”
1986–1988 — “Moscow Elegy” (with L. Feiginova, T. Belousova, A. Zhikhareva, L. Volkova)
1989 — “Soviet Elegy”
1990 — “Petersburg Elegy”
1990 — “To the Events in the Transcaucasian Region”
1991 — “An Example of Intonation” (with I. Kiselyova)
1992 — “An Elegy from Russia”
1996 — “Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life”
1997 — “A Humble Life”
1997 — “The St. Petersburg Diary. Inauguration of a monument to Dostoevsky”
1998 — “The St. Petersburg Diary. Kosintsev's Flat”
1998 — “Confession”
1998 — “The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn”

Feature films:
1978–87 — “The Lonely Voice of Man” (with A. Bespalov, 1978)
1983–87 — “Painful Indifference”
1986 — “Empire” (with L. Volkova and N. Alexandrova)
1988 — “Days of the Eclipse”
1989 — “Save and Protect”
1992 — “Stone”
1993 — “Whispering Pages”
1996 — “Mother and Son”
1999 — “Moloch”
2000 — “Taurus”