Birgit Beumers

Kira Muratova obituary: a great, fearless filmmaker who poked at open wounds

The work of Ukraine’s singular and prolific Kira Muratova – best known for 1989’s Asthenic Syndrome, but spanning the Soviet Thaw and two decades post-perestroika – remains critically neglected. Is it just too unflinching, asks Birgit Beumers.