
Known for
Directing
Born
January 6, 1938
Birthplace
Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Died
July 2, 1979 (aged 41)
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 1950s.
Shepitko's next film Wings concerns a much-decorated 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 gene...
2012
as archive footage
2012
as self (archival)
1999
as Self (archival footage)
1983
Writer, Co-Director
1981
1980
as Self (archive footage)
1977
Writer, Director
1971
Director, Writer
1971
Original Concept
1970
1969
1967
Director, Screenplay
1966
Director
1963
Director, Screenplay
1962
1960
as Hanna
1958
1957
Director
1956
as (uncredited)
1956
Director
1955