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Kyrgyzstan

Filmmaker · Kyrgyzstan

Larisa Shepitko

Died in 1979

Larisa Shepitko was born in 1938 in Artiomovsk, in Soviet Ukraine, and was raised by her mother, a schoolteacher. A student of Alexander Dovzhenko at the Moscow film institute, she completed her diploma in Kyrgyzstan, filming despite illness. Her work consists of four feature films, brief and demanding, the last of which, about two partisans captured in occupied Belarus, received the Golden Bear in Berlin. She worked in a Soviet cinema where women directors were rare, and died in 1979, while preparing a new film.

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