Larisa Shepitko
Directing
Born: 1938-01-06 · Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Died: 1979-07-02
Biography
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
🎬 Movies (22)
More Than Love
2012
archive footage
Islands
2012
self (archival)
A Talk with Larisa
1999
Self (archival footage)
Farewell
1983
Writer
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981
Larisa
1980
Self (archive footage)
The Ascent
1977
Director
Byelorussian Station
1971
Original Concept
You and Me
1971
Director
Sport, Sport, Sport
1970
In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night
1969
Director
The Homeland of Electricity
1967
Director
Beginning of an Unknown Era
1967
Director
Wings
1966
Director
Heat
1963
Director
Ordinary Story
1962
Tavria
1960
Hanna
Poem of the Sea
1958
Living Water
1957
Director
Carnival Night
1956
(uncredited)
Slepoy Kukhar
1956
Director
Vasyl
1955