According to the statement on the website of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, actress and director Lyudmila Tsvetkova died at the age of 78. Web site. Death came the day before, on May 31.
“Documentary director, actress, member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician of the Eurasian Television and Radio Academy, honorary artist of Moscow, an excellent student of cinematography, President of the Russian Federation Lyudmila Vasilievna Tsvetkova passed away.”
The organization expressed its condolences to Tsvetkova’s family and friends.
Farewell to the actor will take place on June 2 at 11:00 in the Central Conference Hall of the Cinematographers’ House on Vasilyevskaya Street.
career path
Tsvetkova was born on October 31, 1944. She graduated from the Theater School in 1967. WOMAN. Shchepkin. She started her film career as an actress. The first work was the painting “The Three Seasons” by Leon Saakov.
In total, he starred in more than 40 films, worked with such famous directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Pyotr Todorovsky, Marlen Khutsiev, Georgy Danelia and others.
The audience especially remembered his roles in “Athos” Daneliya (store manager), as well as “Garage” (a woman in a feathered hat) and “The Irony of Fate” (one of the main character’s friends) Ryazanov.
He started shooting his own films in 1996. The first test was the documentary “Afghans”. In total, his directorial filmography includes more than 20 works, including a series of films “The True Gift”, “Brykin Bor”, “Forest Bell”, “The Beautiful Lives Here”, as well as “Witnesses of the Age”. Heroes of the Second World War.
He wrote the scripts for the films Don’t Leave Me Out of Love and The Real Gift.
Since 2008, he is the President of the Military Historical-Patriot Films Association of the Russian Union of Cinematographers, and since 2022 a member of the Art Council (Cinematography department) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. .