The Homeland of Electricity OTTID:1411852
The Ascent
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An adaptation of a story by Andrei Platonov, this short film by Larisa Shepitko was created as part of a 1967 omnibus film entitled BEGINNING OF AN UNKNOWN ERA, commissioned to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Soviet authorities deemed the depiction of the early Bolsheviks in Shepitko’s entry too critical, and it was shelved upon completion. With the help of Shepitko’s widower, Elem Klimov, the film was finally screened in 1987.
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Lyudmila Polyakova on THE ASCENT OTTI...
In the following interview, recorded in Moscow in October 2020, actor Lyudmila Polyakova discusses the production of THE ASCENT and director Larisa Shepitko’s impact on her career.
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THE ASCENT Select-Scene Commentary OT...
In this program, created in 2020, film scholar Daniel Bird compares several scenes from THE ASCENT with their counterparts in Vasil Bykov’s 1970 novella “Sotnikov,” which inspired Larisa Shepitko’s film, and examines the way the film makes use of Alfred Schnittke’s score.
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Anton Klimov on THE ASCENT OTTID:1410819
In this introduction, recorded in September 2020, journalist Anton Klimov talks about the singular vision of his mother, director Larisa Shepitko, for THE ASCENT, and the devotion to her work of his father, filmmaker Elem Klimov.
