Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Shepitko
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Larisa Shepitko

Director 1938-01-06 Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]

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 ...

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY
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Carnival Night

Carnival Night

1956 · (uncredited)

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

1981 · Movie

Larisa

Larisa

1980 · Self (archive footage)

Poem of the Sea

Poem of the Sea

1958 · Movie

Sport, Sport, Sport

Sport, Sport, Sport

1970 · Movie

Tavria

Tavria

1960 · Hanna

Ordinary Story

Ordinary Story

1962 · Movie

Vasyl

Vasyl

1955 · Movie

A Talk with Larisa

A Talk with Larisa

1999 · Self (archival footage)

Islands

2012 · self (archival)

More Than Love

2012 · archive footage