Arcady Ruderman

Arcady Ruderman (15 January1955-22 September1992 ) ( _ru. Аркадий Рудерман) was a Belarusian documentary filmmaker who was killed during the Civil war in Tajikistan in 1992.

Biography

Arcady Ruderman was born in 1955 in Minsk, capital of the Byelorussian SSR. cite web
author= | publisher=BFI | year=
url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/201092
title=RUDERMAN, Arkady
accessdate=2007-06-25]

Ruderman first gained fame in the Soviet Union in 1988 for his reporting on attempts by the communist authorities of BSSR to play down the centennial celebration of the Jewish painter Marc Chagall. Ruderman went on to direct several documentaries about the underside of the Soviet Union. His work won him accolades at the 1988 and 1989 Soviet film festivals. In November 1988 Ruderman was the first Russian TV journalist to interview Alexander Dubček, the former leader of Czechoslovakia who was deposed by Soviet forces after the Prague Spring uprising of 1968. cite web
author= | publisher=Radio Free Europe | year=1992
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040122085947/www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1992/09/920925.html(opt,mozilla,unix,english,,new)
title= Belorussian Film Director Shot In Tajikistan
accessdate=2007-06-22]

In September 1992 Ruderman traveled to Tajikistan to film a documentary for Ostankino about Davlat Khudonazarov, a fellow filmmaker and opposition candidate in the 1991 Tajikistani presidential elections. At the time the Civil war in Tajikistan was raging and journalists had become the target of murder. On 22 September1992 Ruderman was killed while traveling by car along the road from Nurek Dam to the capital Dushanbe, an area that at the time was experiencing heavy fighting between government and opposition forces. The government ruled Ruderman's death a vehicular accident, but the circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery and his name is listed by the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations as one of the journalists murdered in Tajikistan. cite web
author= | publisher=Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations | year=
url=http://www.memorium.cjes.ru/?pid=2&id=276
title= Memorium
accessdate=2007-06-25] cite web
author= | publisher=Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations | year=2003
url=http://www.cjes.ru/lenta/view_news.php?id=892&year=2003&lang=eng
title=CJES/Tadjikistan
accessdate=2007-06-22]

Filmography

* 1989 - "Recrimination" cite web
author= | publisher=INTERFILM | year=
url=http://www.inter-film.org/pdf/Databank_Ron_Holloway.pdf
title= Databank: copyright Ron Holloway
accessdate=2007-06-25
format=PDF] or "The Counter-claim" cite web
author= | publisher=Vertov | year=
url= http://www.vertov.ru/eng/festivals.htm
title= Festivals in Russia
accessdate=2007-06-25] with Yury Khashchevatsky.
* 1985 - "Who Will Correct Demeter's Error?" ("Kto Ispravit Oshibku Demetry?") cite web
author= | publisher=BFI | year=
url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258025
title= Kto Ispravit Oshibku Demetry
accessdate=2007-06-25]

ee also

*List of journalists killed in Tajikistan

References

External links

* [http://www.memorium.cjes.ru/?pid=2&id=276 Memorium page at CJES for Arcady Ruderman (Russian)]