# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esfir-shub
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:38:57.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esfir-shub"
name: "Esfir Shub"
slug: "esfir-shub"
description: "Esfir Ilyinichna Shub, also referred to as Esther Il'inichna Shub, was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and editor in both the mainstream and documentary fields. She is best known for her trilogy of films, Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), The Great Road (1927), and The Russia of Nicholas II and Leo Tolstoy (1928). Shub is credited as the creator of compilation film and is known for her revolutionary approaches to editing and assembling preserved and archived footage."
tagline: "Soviet film director and film editor (1894-1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esfir_Shub.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1894-03-16"
deathDate: "1959-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.79
  momentum:             1.690140845070423
  historical:           14.70043466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795528/"
    handle:    "nm0795528"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%B1_%D0%95%D1%81%D1%84%D1%96%D1%80_%D0%86%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Шуб Есфір Іллічна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "اسفير شوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_%C5%9Eub"
    title: "Esfir Şub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Xub"
    title: "Esfir Xub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_%C5%A0ubov%C3%A1"
    title: "Esfir Šubová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Iljinitschna_Schub"
    title: "Esfir Iljinitschna Schub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Shub"
    title: "Esfir Shub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Shub"
    title: "Esfir Shub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "اسفیر شوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_%C5%A0ub"
    title: "Esfir Šub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Choub"
    title: "Esther Choub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%BD%D6%86%D5%AB%D6%80_%D5%87%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A2"
    title: "Էսֆիր Շուբ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%96sfir'_Il'ini%C4%8Dna_%C5%A0ub"
    title: "Ėsfir' Il'inična Šub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Choub"
    title: "Esther Choub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Szub"
    title: "Esfir Szub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfir_Shub"
    title: "Esfir Shub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%B1%2C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8C_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Шуб, Эсфирь Ильинична"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1038944"
    title: "Esfir Shub"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump