Larisa Shepitko

Details

Instance of

human

Born

6 January 1938

Died

2 July 1979

Place of birth

Bakhmut

Place of death

Tver Oblast

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Larysa

Spouse

Elem Klimov

Occupation

film director, screenwriter, actor, director

Citizenship

Soviet Union

Native language

Ukrainian

Awards

USSR State Prize, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Golden Bear

birth name

Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько

cause of death

traffic collision

described by source

Faces of Moscow, Women film directors : an international bio-critical dictionary, The St. James women filmmakers encyclopedia

educated at

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

end of work period

1979

has works in the collection

Harvard Film Archive

languages spoken, written or signed

Russian, Ukrainian

manner of death

accidental death

place of burial

Kuntsevo Cemetery

related category

Category:Films directed by Larisa Shepitko

start of work period

1956

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