Larisa Shepitko
Birthday
1938/01/06
Day of death
1979/07/02 (41 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Also know as
Лариса Шепитько, L. Shepitko, Larisa Chepitko, Larissa Chepitko, 라리사 셰피트코
Biography
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 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 ...Read more
