Documentary film director - Yelena Yakovitch graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, she worked for the “Literaturnaya Gazeta” (The Literary Newspaper); from 1993 she has been engaged in television documentary. Author and director (co-authored with Alexei Shishov) of several dozen television films and TV series. Screenwriter and director of films: “Walks with Brodsky: 10 Years Later”, “The Ghetto of Brest”, “Let’s Play Ida Rubinstein”, “The Will of Empress Maria Fedorovna”, “The World After Auschwitz”, “Life Is Not Easy". “Your Sergei Dovlatov”, "The Bronze Age of Ernst Neizvestny", "Vasily Aksyonov. Wish You Were with Us", "Night of the Broken Glass. Jewish pogrom, 1938”, "Victor Nekrasov. Life in the Trenches", "Vasily Grossman. I Realized That I Was Dead", among others. She has written and directed the series: "Russian Winters in Nice", "The Rebellion of the Reformers", "Secrets of Russian Diplomacy”, "Tales of Prince Scherbatov", "The Spanish Trail", "Legendary Friendships", "The Daughter of Philosopher Shpet", and others. Based on her eponymous film and a thirty-hour recording of conversations with 96-year-old Marina Gustavovna Shtorkh, she published the book The Daughter of Philosopher Shpet.
