Women directors in the USSR: Larisa Shepitko
SPbU Representative Office in Spain invites you to an online lecture on "Women Directors in the USSR: Larisa Shepitko". The lecture will be given by Lyubov Bugaeva, Professor at the Department of History of Russian Literature at St Petersburg University, author of the book Literature and Rite de Passage (2010), and over 200 articles on literary and film theory and history.
In the 1960s, women directors began to enter Soviet cinema. Among them was Larisa Shepitko (1938–1979), who became part of a movement of filmmakers who sought to re-evaluate the experience of war and look at contemporary reality in a new way.
Shepitko believed that the role of cinema was to tell the truth. It was not possible to make one film for money and to please, and in another to say what you really think: once you stumble, you cannot return to the righteous path. The director herself never compromised in her work.
In 1976, Shepitko made the film «Ascent» based on the novella "Sotnikov" by Vasily Bykov. This film is considered one of the greatest anti-war films ever made.
The lecture will be held online in Russian with simultaneous translation into Spanish.