Talks with Larisa
The Ascent • 52m
This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina Rubanova to an interview with director Larisa Shepitko that was recorded just after the 1978 Berlin International Film Festival.
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Larisa
Directed by Elem Klimov • 1980 • Soviet Union
Starring Larisa Shepitko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Elem KlimovDirector Larisa Shepitko’s husband, Elem Klimov, made this short documentary a year after the death of his wife in 1979. Using footage from her films, including the last image she ever record...
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The Homeland of Electricity
An adaptation of a story by Andrei Platonov, this short film by Larisa Shepitko was created as part of a 1967 omnibus film entitled BEGINNING OF AN UNKNOWN ERA, commissioned to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Soviet authorities deemed the depiction of the early Bolshevik...
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Lyudmila Polyakova on THE ASCENT
In the following interview, recorded in Moscow in October 2020, actor Lyudmila Polyakova discusses the production of THE ASCENT and director Larisa Shepitko’s impact on her career.
