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As promised in the last issue in my review of The Ascent, here is a brief look at another of Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko’s films. Wings was her first film after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, reputed to be the oldest film school in the world. Such subsequent Soviet greats as Andrei …
Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko only made four films before her untimely death in 1979 at the age of 41 in an auto accident while working on what would have been her fifth. Yet had she made only this one, a war film with religious allegory at its heart, this would still ensure her place among …