Larisa Shepitko

Directing

Born January 6, 1938 — Died July 2, 1979

From Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Also known as L. Shepitko, Larisa Chepitko, Larissa Chepitko

Biography

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 d...