Larisa Shepitko
January 6, 1938 · 88 years old
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…
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The Ascent
1977 · 1h 51m · Movie
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
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Wings
1966 · 1h 25m · Movie
A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that sh...
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