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Year: 1980
Country: CCCP
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 20:00

Directed by Elem Klimov

Cast: Elem Klimov, Maya Bulgakov, Stephanie Stanyuta, Valentin Rasputin

Description: "Larissa" - a documentary film about a Soviet film director Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident at age 41 in 1979. The film was shot by her husband Elem Klimov in 1980.
The film contains excerpts from all the movies Yefimovna Larissa, and her voice sounded.

Larisa Shepitko Efimovna (January 6, 1938, Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR - July 2, 1979, Kalinin region.) - Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress.

Biography

In 1954 she graduated from high school in Lviv. In 1955 entered the VGIK (workshop of Alexander Dovzhenko, after his death in 1956 - Workshop ME Chiaureli). As a student, she starred in several films as an actress, including in the "Poem of the Sea" (1958) launched APDovjenko and completed by his wife, Julia Solntseva.

The first feature film - thesis "Heat" (1963), based on the novel by Chingiz Aitmatov "Camel's Eye" - filmed in Kyrgyzstan, where shortly before it was reorganized Studio documentary feature films, received in 1961 the name "Kirghizfilm." At the stage of montage Larissa Shepitko helped Elem Klimov, while also a student fighting positions. In 1963 they become husband and wife (their only son Anton was born in 1973). And the movie "Heat" was awarded the prize for debut at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary (1964).

Larissa Shepitko fame brought her second film "Wings" (1966), about the fate of post-war fighter pilot Natalia PETRUKHIN - one of his best roles in this film played Maya Bulgakov, recognized in 1966 "best actress".

The next film - "Homeland electricity" on the story by Andrei Platonov - was filmed in the village Seroglazka Astrakhan region, and in the film were employed and many non-professional actors, the residents of the village. The film with the novels "Angel" by A. Smirnov and "Motrya" GS Gabai was to enter the film almanac "The Beginning of unknown age," which the studio "Mosfilm" preparing for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. However, no censorship "Homeland electricity" or "Angel" were not released on the screen (the picture was restored and show viewers just 20 years old, in 1987). By the way, Andrei Smirnov soon took his most famous film "Belorussian Station" (1970), filmed originally planned to charge Larissa Shepitko.

Larisa Shepitko then shot his first color film, a musical fairy tale "In the thirteenth hour of the night" (1969) - New Year's revue with such famous artists as Vladimir Basov, George Vitsin, Zino Gerdt, Spartak Mishulin, Anatoly Papanov etc.

The second (and last) color picture of "You and I" (1972) was filmed on the script Larisa Shepitko and Gennady Shpalikov and dedicated to their generation, the generation of thirty years. Movie characters - Peter and Sasha, talented medical researchers who are "for the sake of random luck and optional, for the sake of prestige perspectives ... put their talents to the time (they thought) and headed into the world of logistics and business achievements". [1] Starring in the film, played by Leonid Diachkov, Yuri Vizbor and Alla Demidova (originally the main female role auditioned for Bella Ahmadulina). In the same year at the Venice IFF director was awarded the medal for the painting competition for young film.

In 1974, Larissa Shepitko was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
The plaque Larissa Shepitko in Lviv

Soon begin shooting the film "Ascent" on the novel by Vasil Bykov, "Sotnikov". In this film, the first big role brilliantly played by young actors Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin. The film was on the verge of prohibition and was released only after the intervention of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus Petr Masherova. "Ascent" - a strong existential drama about faith and betrayal - has been awarded top prizes Union Film Festival in Riga, and at the international film festival in West Berlin, the film won the Grand Prix "Golden Bear", FIPRESCI Prize and the Ecumenical Jury. In 1978 Larisa Shepitko received an invitation to join the Berlin Film Festival jury.

Larissa was a mystic - believed that she lived several times already. In 1978, while in Bulgaria, visited the famous Wang, she predicted the impending death. Hearing this, Larissa in the day with her friend went to the temple and made her vow that if she dies, it will be a friend to take care of her son Anton. [2]

After that, the director is preparing a film script of "matter" by Valentin Rasputin's novel "Farewell to the mothers." Filming was to be held at Lake Seliger, and the beginning of June 1979 there had been planned kinoekspeditsii.

Early in the morning of July 2, 1979 Cine Cameras "Volga" pick-up on a deserted highway for an unknown reason, went into oncoming traffic and crashed into a rushing toward the truck. On the 137th kilometer of the Leningrad highway in the direction of Tver, near the village of Redkino, ended the life of Larissa Shepitko and crew (in the car were also cameraman Vladimir Chukhnov, artist Yuri Fomenko and their assistants).

Work on the film "Matera" concluded the husband of Larisa Shepitko, film director Elem Klimov, who called the film "Farewell" (1982). He also directed a documentary about her "Larissa" (1980), assembled from fragments of her films and interviews with her colleagues.

She was buried at Larissa Shepitko Kuntsevsky cemetery.

Filmography

The director's job

* 1956 - The Blind Kuhar (course work) (?)
* 1957 - Living Water (course work) (?)
* 1963 - The Heat
* 1966 - Wings
* 1967/1987 - Homeland electricity (film almanac "The beginning of unknown age," the second story)
* 1969 - In the thirteenth hour of the night
* 1972 - You and I
* 1976 - The Ascent
* 1982 - Farewell (preparatory phase)

Scripts

* 1963 - The Heat (story by Chingiz Aitmatov)
* 1967/1987 - Homeland electricity (from a story by Andrei Platonov)
* 1972 - You and I
* 1976 - The Ascent (on the novel by Vladimir Bykov)
* 1982 - Farewell (based on the novel by V. Rasputin)

Acting work

* 1958 - The Poem of the Sea
* 1960 - Ordinary Story
* 1960 - Tavriia
* 1970 - Sports, sports, sports - Queen (in an episode of the Merchant Kalashnikov)
* 1981 - The Agony

(C) Wikipedia.

Quality: TVRip
Format: AVI
Video: DivX 4/5/6 640x480 25 fps 2.2 Mbps
Audio: Lame MP3 Stereo 44.1 KHz 128 Kbps

Additional Information: The movie is recorded with the Italian channel. nondisconnectable has Italian subtitles.