---
name: "Larisa Shepitko"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/larisa-shepitko"
fi1m_id: "larisa-shepitko"
imdb_id: "nm0791899"
tmdb_id: 143285
wikidata_id: "Q138477"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "6 January 1938"
died: "2 July 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:10:09.691406+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Larisa Shepitko

## Identity

Larisa Shepitko

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/larisa-shepitko
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** larisa-shepitko
- **IMDb ID:** nm0791899
- **TMDB ID:** 143285
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138477
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larisa_Shepitko, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138477, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143285

Director. Born 6 January 1938 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. Died 2 July 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 6 January 1938, Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]
- **Died:** 2 July 1979
- **Also known as:** L. Shepitko, Larisa Chepitko, Larissa Chepitko, 라리사 셰피트코, Л. Шепитько, Лариса Ефимовна Шепитько, Larisa Efimovna Shepitko
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larisa_Shepitko, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138477, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143285

## Biography

Larisa Shepitko was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Born in 1938 in Artyomovsk, Ukrainian SSR, she studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow under Alexander Dovzhenko.

Her early features include *Heat* (1963), her diploma film, and *Wings* (1966). She directed and co-wrote her final film, *The Ascent* (1977), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Shepitko died in a car accident in 1979 while scouting locations for a subsequent project. She was married to filmmaker Elem Klimov.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ascent* (1977), Fi1m 88, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Farewell* (1983), Writer, Co-Director
- *Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin* (1981), Actor
- *The Ascent* (1977), Director, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ascent.md)
- *You and Me* (1971), Director, Writer
- *Byelorussian Station* (1971), Original Concept
- *Sport, Sport, Sport* (1970), Actor
- *In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night* (1969), Director
- *Beginning of an Unknown Era* (1967), Director, Screenplay
- *Wings* (1966), Director
- *Heat* (1963), Director, Screenplay
- *Ordinary Story* (1962), Actor
- *Tavria* (1960), as Hanna
- *Poem of the Sea* (1958), Actor
- *Living Water* (1957), Director
- *Carnival Night* (1956), as (uncredited)
- *Slepoy Kukhar* (1956), Director
- *Vasyl* (1955), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Меморіальна таблиця Ларисі Шепітько на вул. Ковжуна, 8 у Львові (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/3920812/gallery-3baad24828c3.jpg) Меморіальна таблиця Ларисі Шепітько на вул. Ковжуна, 8 у Львові (2022) — Половко Сергей Николаевич, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%96_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BB._%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_8_%D1%83_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96.jpg/1280px-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%96_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BB._%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_8_%D1%83_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%96.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Larisa Shepitko](https://film.one/media/person/3920812/gallery-b26a5b67d4d5.jpg) Larisa Shepitko — Image via TMDB
- ![Larisa Shepitko](https://film.one/media/person/3920812/gallery-ad58b665eeb6.jpg) Larisa Shepitko — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 1977: Golden Bear (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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