Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.
Leeanna Walsman
as Elizaveta Svilova
Richard James Allen
as Dziga Vertov
Marcus Graham
as Boris Shumyatsky
Cat Smith
as Baker
Ivan K. Germano
as Vertov's cameraman
