Larisa Shepitko's 'The Ascent' Receives High Marks on Letterboxd Decades After Release
Larisa Shepitko's 1977 World War II drama, 'The Ascent,' has achieved high ratings on the film social networking site Le...
Larisa Shepitko
DirectingBorn: 1938-01-06Died: 1979-07-02Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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.
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