Happy Birthday, Larisa Shepitko! Born today in 1938 as Larisa Efimovna Shepitko, this Soviet actress, screenwriter and film director is best known for co-writing and directing the 1977 Soviet black and white drama/art film 'Voskhozhdeniye' (literally 'The Ascent').
The film was based off of the 1974 Soviet fiction novel "Sotnikov" by Vasil Bykaŭ, a prolific author of novels and novellas about World War II and a significant figure in soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought.
The film was based off of the 1974 Soviet fiction novel "Sotnikov" by Vasil Bykaŭ, a prolific author of novels and novellas about World War II and a significant figure in soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought.
Shepitko passed in a car crash on a highway near the city of Tver with four members of her shooting team while scouting locations for her planned adaptation of a Russian novel on July 2, 1979. She was 41.
The following year, her husband, Soviet Russian film director Elem Klimov ('Come and See'), made the twenty-five-minute 1980 West German biography documentary/short film tribute entitled 'Larisa'.
Three years later, Klimov finished Shepitko's final work with the 1983 Soviet drama film 'Proshchanie'(under the title 'Farewell').
Shepitko had been active from 1956–1979.
Three years later, Klimov finished Shepitko's final work with the 1983 Soviet drama film 'Proshchanie'(under the title 'Farewell').
Shepitko had been active from 1956–1979.
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