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- Birth nameLarisa Yefimovna Shepitko
- Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Bakhmut, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for L'ascension (1977), Znoy (1963) and Ty i ya (1971). She was married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino, Kalinin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR.
- SpouseElem Klimov(1963 - June 2, 1979) (her death, 1 child)
- Children
- Ukrainian writer/director, wife of fellow director Elem Klimov. A student of Alexander Dovzhenko, she was a graduate of the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (1963).
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1978
- Mother of one child, Anton born in 1971.
- 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).
- She was a Ukrainian Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress.
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