![]() Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimov.The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko.New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Let's check out the special features included in this release: It won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin International Film Festival, in addition to other accolades. The Ascent is a film in which it isn't necessarily what happens but how it happens that makes all the difference in the world - and in this case, it results in a fine piece of emotional, harrowing, absolutely transcendent cinema. The partisans hide in the loft, but are found, and along with the mother, all three are taken as prisoners, leaving the children behind for their fates and how they're determined. They find a house with three smiling small children and not long after their mother returns, the Germans come searching. The soldiers get separated from their troop during a skirmish with the Germans, and set off to find shelter and food. (Filming conditions were as harsh as can be, with most cast and crew succumbing to blackened, frostbitten fingers.) Of course, it's World War II, and there's nothing like a harsh Soviet winter to set the tone of hopelessness and despair. ![]() Those who knew her were often astonished by her energy and determination to make film, but it was The Ascent in particular that resulted in the culmination of her artistic skills and will.īased off Vasily Bykov's novel Sotnikov, The Ascent follows two Russian partisans in the bleak winter of 1942 in Belarus. Having already made her thesis film Heat in extreme conditions, both externally and health-wise, Shepitko was used to struggle. You could say that getting The Ascent made was a driving force in Shepitko's life. Long lauded by fellow filmmakers, critics, and fans, this 1977 black and white parable was infused with religious parallels, not just from the book from which it was adapted, but by Shepitko herself, who was impassioned to make the film.Ĭompleting any film requires an insane amount of fortitude, but if Shepitko were to be described as having just one thing, it would be fortitude. ![]() Out this week from Criterion is Shepitko's last fully finished film, The Ascent. (In fact, after Shepitko's early death while scouting locations at age 41, Klimov stepped in to take over and finish her film Farewell.) Ukrainan-born filmmaker Larisa Shepitko attended famed Russian cinematography school VGIK, where she was a protoge of Alexander Dovzhenko ( Earth) and peer of Andrei Tarkovsky ( Solaris, Stalker) and Elem Klimov ( Come And See), whom she married and collaborated with. ![]()
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