Marina Tsurtsumiya (Russian:Марина Романовна Цурцумия; February 3, 1964) is a Moscow-based director and activist best known for her 1993 film Only Death Comes for Sure.
"[2] After graduating in 1987 Tsurtsumiya again worked at Gorky Studio for a time before branching out into independent cinema.
She also collaborated with director Lev Kulidzhanov on a series of historical films about the 21st century titled Recollection of Something.
He said, using Tsurtsumiya as an example, "Seeing that the audience is inert, that their work is not interesting to anyone, that it is useless to wait for support from the state, some talented people leave the profession, start doing something else.
The dramatic film is based on the Gabriel Garcia Marquez story, “No One Writes to the Colonel”, but the setting is changed from Colombia to war-torn Georgia.
National Film Award winning critic Rashmi Doraiswamy praised Tsurtsumiya's film, "The desolation of a strife-torn city, of the aged couple waiting for decades for their pension papers to be cleared as history changes tracks rapidly, and the youth who live both in and out of the political situation they are in ... all are captured sensitively in the visual, in the sound-track and in the pacing by the director.