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Larissa Chepitko is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Russe born on 6 january 1938

Larissa Chepitko

Larissa Chepitko
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Nationality Russie
Birth 6 january 1938
Death 2 july 1979 (at 41 years) at Tver Oblast (Russie)
Awards USSR State Prize

Larisa Efimovna Shepitko (Russian: Лари́са Ефи́мовна Шепи́тько, Ukrainian: Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько; 6 January 1938, Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR – 2 June 1979, Kalinin Oblast) was a Soviet film director.

Biography

Larissa Chepitko commence sa carrière comme actrice, puis suit les cours de l'Institut du cinéma de Moscou, le VGIK, dans la classe d'Alexandre Dovjenko. Elle juge son apprentissage ainsi : « Dovjenko nous enseignait à rester fidèles à nous-mêmes, à faire confiance à nos sentiments, à défendre nos conceptions. J'ignorais alors combien c'est difficile ».

Tourné aux studios Kirghizfilm, son premier long métrage, Chaleur torride (Znoï, 1963), est inspiré de la nouvelle de Tchinguiz Aïtmatov dont l'action se déroule en Kirghizie. Elle obtient la consécration avec son dernier film, L'Ascension, couronné d'un Ours d'or à la Berlinale 1977, dont elle a dit : « Mon film est un voyage spirituel vers l’humanité, vers l’avenir de l’être humain qui se cache dans ces deux personnages », et aussi : « Le problème de l’immortalité de l’âme était directement relié à ma propre existence ».

Prématurément disparue au cours d'un accident de voiture, elle préparait alors un film adapté d'un roman de Valentin Raspoutine, Les Adieux à Matiora qui a été terminé par son époux, le réalisateur Elem Klimov. Larissa Chepitko était, alors, une des figures les plus prometteuses de la nouvelle génération de réalisateurs soviétiques. Elle est enterrée au cimetière de Kountsevo.

« Méconnue, peut-être parce qu’elle était une femme, et peut-être aussi parce que ses films étaient censurés la plupart du temps par les autorités soviétiques" ; c’est le CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée) qui a permis de redécouvrir l’intégralité de son œuvre ».

Elle a été célébrée en France lors du Festival Lumière de Lyon, en 2015, par une rétrospective de tous ses films.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Larissa Chepitko (8 films)

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Actress

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin, 2h23
Directed by Elem Klimov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Alissa Freindlich, Anatoli Romashin, Velta Līne, Mikhail Svetin, Lev Lemke, Alexeï Petrenko
Rating69% 3.491993.491993.491993.491993.49199
The storyline of the film follows the final months of 1916 up to the murder of Rasputin; some events have been telescoped into this time though they actually happened earlier, during the war. Rasputin's effect on people around him is shown as almost hypnotic, and the film avoids taking a moral stance towards him—breaking not only with Soviet history but also with how he was regarded by people near the court at the time, some of whom regarded him as a debilitating figure who disgraced the monarchy and hampered the war effort.
Carnival Night, 1h18
Directed by Eldar Riazanov
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Carnaval, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Igor Ilinski, Lioudmila Gourtchenko, Vladimir Zeldin, Sergueï Filippov, Andreï Toutychkine, Tamara Nossova
Roles guest
Rating73% 3.692583.692583.692583.692583.69258
It is New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been appointed and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra.

Director

Farewell
Farewell (1983)
, 1h48
Directed by Elem Klimov, Larissa Chepitko
Genres Drama
Actors Stefaniya Staniyuta, Alexei Petrenko, Lev Dourov, Alexeï Petrenko, Maïa Boulgakova, Maya Bulgakovа
Rating73% 3.6792053.6792053.6792053.6792053.679205
The existence of the village of Matyora, located on a small island of the same name, is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam to serve a hydroelectric power plant. The villagers oppose their displacement and the loss of their traditions, but are eventually forced to bid farewell to their homeland.
The Ascent
The Ascent (1977)
, 1h51
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Vladimir Gostioukhine, Anatoli Solonitsyne, Alexandre Demianenko
Rating81% 4.095344.095344.095344.095344.09534
During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. After taking a farm animal from the collaborationist headman (Sergei Yakovlev), they head back to their unit, but are spotted by a German patrol. After a protracted gunfight in the snow in which one of the Germans is killed, the two men get away, but Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) is shot in the leg. Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin) has to take him to the nearest shelter, the home of Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), the mother of three young children. However, they are discovered and captured.
You and Me
You and Me (1971)
, 1h37
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Actors Yuri Vizbor, Natalia Bondartchouk, Alla Demidova, Leonid Markov, Alexandre Schirwindt
Rating71% 3.571933.571933.571933.571933.57193
Proche d'une découverte qui doit aider à la guérison de nombreuses personnes, Peter, un neurochirurgien, abandonne son travail de recherche et se rend en Suède. Plusieurs années plus tard son auto-insatisfaction lui fait tout abandonner et il part pour la Sibérie, où différentes personnes l'aident à se dépasser et à revenir au travail scientifique qu'il avait abandonné.
Wings
Wings (1966)
, 1h25
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Maya Bulgakovа, Maïa Boulgakova, Rimma Markova, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Olga Gobzeva, Zhanna Bolotova
Rating75% 3.788543.788543.788543.788543.78854
Nadezhda Petrukhina, a once heroic Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.
Heat
Heat (1963)
, 1h15
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Actors Bolotbek Shamshiyev
Rating67% 3.3671353.3671353.3671353.3671353.367135
Le film est l'adaptation de la nouvelle de Tchinguiz Aïtmatov L'Oeil du Chameau.

Scriptwriter

Farewell
Farewell (1983)
, 1h48
Directed by Elem Klimov, Larissa Chepitko
Genres Drama
Actors Stefaniya Staniyuta, Alexei Petrenko, Lev Dourov, Alexeï Petrenko, Maïa Boulgakova, Maya Bulgakovа
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.6792053.6792053.6792053.6792053.679205
The existence of the village of Matyora, located on a small island of the same name, is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam to serve a hydroelectric power plant. The villagers oppose their displacement and the loss of their traditions, but are eventually forced to bid farewell to their homeland.
The Ascent
The Ascent (1977)
, 1h51
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Vladimir Gostioukhine, Anatoli Solonitsyne, Alexandre Demianenko
Roles Writer
Rating81% 4.095344.095344.095344.095344.09534
During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. After taking a farm animal from the collaborationist headman (Sergei Yakovlev), they head back to their unit, but are spotted by a German patrol. After a protracted gunfight in the snow in which one of the Germans is killed, the two men get away, but Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) is shot in the leg. Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin) has to take him to the nearest shelter, the home of Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), the mother of three young children. However, they are discovered and captured.
You and Me
You and Me (1971)
, 1h37
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Actors Yuri Vizbor, Natalia Bondartchouk, Alla Demidova, Leonid Markov, Alexandre Schirwindt
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.571933.571933.571933.571933.57193
Proche d'une découverte qui doit aider à la guérison de nombreuses personnes, Peter, un neurochirurgien, abandonne son travail de recherche et se rend en Suède. Plusieurs années plus tard son auto-insatisfaction lui fait tout abandonner et il part pour la Sibérie, où différentes personnes l'aident à se dépasser et à revenir au travail scientifique qu'il avait abandonné.
Byelorussian Station, 1h41
Directed by Andreï Smirnov
Genres Drama
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée
Actors Evgueni Leonov, Anatoli Papanov, Vsevolod Safonov, Nina Ourgant, Alekseï Glazyrine, Lyubov Sokolova
Roles Original Concept
Rating76% 3.834463.834463.834463.834463.83446
25 years after the end of Great Patriotic War four comrades-in-arms attend the funeral of their friend. He was the only one of them who stayed in the military and rose to the rank of colonel. The rest of them turned to civil professions: locksmith, journalist, accountant and director of the plant.
Heat
Heat (1963)
, 1h15
Directed by Larissa Chepitko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Actors Bolotbek Shamshiyev
Rating67% 3.3671353.3671353.3671353.3671353.367135
Le film est l'adaptation de la nouvelle de Tchinguiz Aïtmatov L'Oeil du Chameau.