Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Larysa Efimovna Shepitko (6 January 1938, Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR – 2 June 1979, Kalinin Oblast) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director. She went to the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Olexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film Heat, made when she was 22 years old. It tells the story of a new farming community in Central Asia during the mid 1950s. Shepitko's next film Wings concerns a much-decorated female fighter pilot of World War II. The pilot, now principal of a vocational college, is out of touch with her daughter and the new generation. The film aroused considerable Soviet press controversy at the time, as films were not meant to depict conflicts between children and parents (Vronskaya, 1972 p 39). Shepitko's third film was You and I (1971). This was her only film in colour. It was favourably received at the Venice Film Festival, but lacked proper public exposure in the Soviet Union. The Ascent (1976) was her last film and the one which garnered the most attention in the West. In it, Shepitko returns to the sufferings of World War II, chronicling the trials and tribulations of a group of partisans in Belarus in the bleak winter of 1942. Two of the partisans are captured by the Nazis and then interrogated by a local collaborator, played by Anatoly Solonitsyn, before one of them is executed in public. This depiction of the martyrdom of the Russians owes much to Christian iconography. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. Shepitko's growing international reputation led to an invitation to serve on the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978. However, she was unable to complete any other films. Shepitko died in a car crash with four members of her shooting team in 1979 while scouting locations for her planned adaptation of the novel Farewell to Matyora, by Valentin Rasputin. Her husband Elem Klimov, also a film director, finished the work for her. Description above from the Wikipedia article Larisa Shepitko, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Larisa Shepitko
  • Popularity: 2.428
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1938-01-06
  • Place of Birth: Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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  • Also Known As: Лариса Шепитько, L. Shepitko, Larisa Chepitko, Larissa Chepitko, 라리사 셰피트코
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Larisa Shepitko Movies

  • 1962
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    Ordinary Story

    Ordinary Story

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1970
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    Sport, Sport, Sport

    Sport, Sport, Sport

    5.6 1970 HD

    A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.

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  • 1956
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    Carnival Night

    Carnival Night

    7 1956 HD

    It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot...

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  • 1981
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    Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

    Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

    6.6 1981 HD

    Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome...

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  • 1958
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    Poem of the Sea

    Poem of the Sea

    5.3 1958 HD

    A Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who...

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  • 1980
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    Larisa

    Larisa

    6.1 1980 HD

    Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.

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  • 1960
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    Tavria

    Tavria

    2 1960 HD

    1914, Imperial Russia. A group of Ukrainian peasants searching for a better life in the Taurida steppe end up working at the landholding of the...

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  • 1999
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    Talks with Larisa

    Talks with Larisa

    1 1999 HD

    This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina...

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  • 2012
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    More Than Love

    More Than Love

    1 2012 HD

    A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.

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  • 1971
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    Byelorussian Station

    Byelorussian Station

    6.9 1971 HD

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  • 1966
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    Wings

    Wings

    6.9 1966 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Ascent

    The Ascent

    7.901 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Ascent

    The Ascent

    7.901 1977 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Homeland of Electricity

    The Homeland of Electricity

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Beginning of an Unknown Era

    Beginning of an Unknown Era

    5.4 1967 HD

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  • 1983
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    Farewell

    Farewell

    6.2 1983 HD

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  • 1971
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    You and Me

    You and Me

    6.2 1971 HD

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  • 1963
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    Heat

    Heat

    4 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Heat

    Heat

    4 1963 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Homeland of Electricity

    The Homeland of Electricity

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night

    In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night

    7 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Beginning of an Unknown Era

    Beginning of an Unknown Era

    5.4 1967 HD

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  • 1957
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    Living Water

    Living Water

    3 1957 HD

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  • 1971
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    You and Me

    You and Me

    6.2 1971 HD

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  • 1956
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    Slepoy Kukhar

    Slepoy Kukhar

    1 1956 HD

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