Biography

Svetlana Karmalita was born on March 9, 1940 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. She was a writer and assistant director, known for Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998), Hard to Be a God (2013) and The Fall of Otrar (1990). She died on July 4, 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia.