During the attack on Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the screenwriter Leonid Korin died. This was said on social networks on May 1 by his friend Pavel Drozdov.
Blogger Sergey Kolyasnikov gave details about Korin’s death on his Telegram channel. According to him, Korin volunteered for a special operation and died during the attack on Artemovsk as part of the Wagner PMC. portal “StarHit” Referring to the screenwriter’s circle, he said that Korin died on March 29 and was long listed as missing. Cause of death unknown, believed to have died from multiple shrapnel wounds. It was noted that Korin’s body was identified with a tattoo.
The date of separation with the screenwriter was not reported.
Leonid Korin was born in 1975 in Yaroslavl. Graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television in 2010, studied at the scriptwriting workshop of Yuri Klepikov. Graduation script “Contrabass” printed In the first issue of Art of Cinema magazine in 2011.
Korin has several unrealized scenarios that he wants to film. So, in 2019 report He admitted to the ATV television company that he has a script dedicated to the war in Chechnya (“Contrabass.” – note from socialbites.ca), but said that “Chechnya is a somewhat taboo topic.” Also, according to him, he was seeking funding for a movie dedicated to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi Party. According to him, the difficulty of shooting military scripts has to do with “there is demand from the audience, but it comes from a little higher”, meaning that not all filmmakers dare to tackle historical military issues.
According to the screenwriter, he was attracted to the military theme in the cinema due to the historical background of the family – his ancestors participated in the Great Patriotic War, and in his youth he watched mainly military films.
As a screenwriter, Korin is the recipient of numerous film awards. He received awards from “Start” and “Stalker” festivals for the script of the movie “Mission” (2006). For the film “Lily of the Valley” (2006) – also the “Stalker” award. He also won awards for the screenplays of The Elder (2008), Change House (2008) and Double Bass (2009). In 2009, he received an award at the New Horizon International Film Festival for the screenplay of the movie Cruise. The Bashkir language film “Enmeş”, scripted by Korin, won 24 awards at national and international festivals.
The main paintings of Korin are “Ice” and “Battle for Sevastopol”.
“Battle for Sevastopol” is a Ukrainian-Russian project directed by Sergei Mokritsky, shot in 2015. The film tells about the fate of the female sniper of the 25th Chapaev Rifle Division of the Red Army, Hero of the USSR, Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who destroyed 309 soldiers and officers of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War. A team including Maxim Budarin, Sergey Mokritsky, Leonid Korin and Maxim Dankevich was working on the script. The plot was based on Pavlichenko’s book Heroic Reality: The Defense of Sevastopol 1941-1942. Yulia Peresild played the main role in the film.
“Ice” is a Russian sports melodrama directed by Oleg Trofim, which tells how a talented figure skater is injured due to the fault of a partner and is trying to recover. The main roles were played by Alexander Petrov and Aglaya Tarasova.
Korin also took part in the production of the TV series “The Foundry”, “Family Detective” and “The Last Cop”.