From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Larysa Efimovna Shepitko 6 January 1938 Artemivsk Ukrainian SSR 2 June 1979 Kalinin Oblast was a Ukrainian Soviet film director She went to the AllUnion State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Olexander Dovzhenko She was a student of Dovzhenkos 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 Shepitkos next film Wings concerns a muchdecorated female fighter pilot of World War II The pilot now principal of a vocational college is out of touch with her daughter and the new generation The film aroused considerable Soviet press controversy at the time as films were not meant to depict conflicts between children and parents Vronskaya 1972 p 39 Shepitkos third film was You and I 1971 This was her only film in colour It was favourably received at the Venice Film Festival but lacked proper public exposure in the Soviet Union The Ascent 1976 was her last film and the one which garnered the most attention in the West In it Shepitko returns to the sufferings of World War II chronicling the trials and tribulations of a group of partisans in Belarus in the bleak winter of 1942 Two of the partisans are captured by the Nazis and then interrogated by a local collaborator played by Anatoly Solonitsyn before one of them is executed in public This depiction of the martyrdom of the Russians owes much to Christian iconography The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977 Shepitkos growing international reputation led to an invitation to serve on the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978 However she was unable to complete any other films Shepitko died in a car crash with four members of her shooting team in 1979 while scouting locations for her planned adaptation of the novel Farewell to Matyora by Valentin Rasputin Her husband Elem Klimov also a film director finished the work for her Description above from the Wikipedia article Larisa Shepitko licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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