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Name: Larisa Shepitko  
   
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Date of Birth: 6th January 1938
   
Place of Birth: Artyomovsk, Soviet Union [now Ukraine]
   
Profession: Director
 
 
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Larisa Efimovna Shepitko (Russian: Лариса Ефимовна Шепитько; Artemovsk, Ukraine, 6 January 1939 - Kaliningrad Oblast, 2 June 1979) was a Russian film director. She went to the Moscow Film school (VGIK) as a pupil of Alexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovhenko'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. 'Heat' is a story based upon a farming community being established during the mid 1950s in Central Asia.

Shepitko's next film Wings is the story of a much decorated female fighter pilot of World War II. The pilot, now principal of a vocational college, is on a very different wavelength to her daughter and the new generation. The film aroused considerable press controversy as films were not meant to represent conflicts between children and parents. The film also seemed to be mocking war heroes as well. (Vronskaya, 1972 p 39).

Shepitko's third film was You and I 1971. This was her only film in colour. Quart (1989, p215) argues that it showed a much stronger Western film making style which might explain its favourable reception at the Venice Film Festival and its corresponding lack of public exposure in the Soviet Union.

The Ascent was her last film and the one which gained most attention in the West. In this Shepitko returns to the sufferings of World War II. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of two partisans in white Russia in the winter of 1942.

Shepitko died in a car crash with 4 members of her shooting team in 1979 making 'Farewell to Matyora'. Her husband Elem Klimov also a film director finished the film for her.

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