FILM DIRECTOR

Larisa Shepitko

1938 - 1979

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Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (Russian: Лари́са Ефи́мовна Шепи́тько, Ukrainian: Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько, romanized: Larysa Yukhymivna Shepitko; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. She is considered one of the best female directors of all time, with her film The Ascent being the second film directed by a woman to win a Golden Bear and the third film directed by a woman to win a top award at a major European film festival (Cannes, Venice, Berlin). Shepitko was also considered one of the most prominent Soviet filmmakers during both the Khrushchev Thaw and the Era of Stagnation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larisa Shepitko has received more than 271,409 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Larisa Shepitko is the 476th most popular film director (down from 417th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 294th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Larisa Shepitko ranks 476 out of 2,041. Before her are Walter Frentz, Michael Radford, John Hughes, Robert Rossen, Richard Lester, and Moshé Mizrahi. After her are Derek Jarman, André Hunebelle, John Badham, Edward Zwick, George P. Cosmatos, and Juraj Jakubisko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Larisa Shepitko ranks 174. Before her are Jean-Loup Chrétien, Violetta Villas, Derviş Eroğlu, Myroslav Skoryk, Bennie Muller, and Jacqueline Andere. After her are Tufuga Efi, Juraj Jakubisko, William B. Davis, Sjaak Swart, Götz George, and Andrey Myagkov. Among people deceased in 1979, Larisa Shepitko ranks 89. Before her are Teruo Nakamura, Merle Oberon, Ahmad Zahir, Preguinho, Philippe Halsman, and Santos Urdinarán. After her are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Morteza Motahhari, Ferenc Nagy, Vagif Mustafazadeh, José María Velasco Ibarra, and Joseph Alcazar.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Larisa Shepitko ranks 348 out of 1,365. Before her are Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Euphemia of Kiev (1100), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), Michał Boym (1614), and Mikołaj Rej (1505). After her are Victor Kravchenko (1905), Petro Shelest (1908), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Bohdan Stupka (1941), Géza Kalocsay (1913), and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Larisa Shepitko ranks 8. Before her are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), and Maya Deren (1917). After her are Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Les Kurbas (1887), and Aleksandr Ptushko (1900).

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