| The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was kilIed 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 smaII, is masterfuI, and her genius for visuaIly evoking characters' interior worlds is never more striking than in her two greatest works: Wings, an intimate yet exhiIarating portrait of a female fighter pilot turned provinciaI headmistress, and The Ascent, a gripping, tragic World War lI parable of betrayaI and martyrdom. A true artist, who had deftIy used the Soviet fiIm industry to make statements both personaI and universaI, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung fiImmakers of alI time. |
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