Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko (Criterion Collection) On DVD

Actor:       Gopi (Gopi), Lalitha Azeez, Kaviyoor Ponamma, Vilasini Suseela
Director:   Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Genre:      Foreign Video - Russian
Year:         N/A
Studio:      Criterion
Length:     194
Released: August 12, 2008
Rating:      Unrated (Video)
Format:     DVD
Misc:         Black & White
Language:English
Subtitles  :N/A

DESCRIPTION:

The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car crash at age thirty-nine, just as she was emerging on the international scene. The body of work she left behind, though small, is masterful, and her genius for visually evoking characters interior worlds is never more striking than in her two greatest works: Wings, an intimate yet exhilarating portrait of a female fighter pilot turned provincial headmistress, and The Ascent, a gripping, tragic World War II parable of betrayal and martyrdom. A true artist, who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time.