Larisa Shepitko

Biography

Larysa Shepitko was a Ukrainian Soviet film director born on January 6, 1938, in Artemivsk, Ukraine. She graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize-winning diploma film Heat, which tells the story of a new farming community in Central Asia during the mid-1950s. Her film The Ascent (1976) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and is considered one of her most notable works. She died in a car crash in 1979 while scouting locations for her next project.