repeated hit
In the 90th year, the director of the People’s Artist of the RSFSR Gleb Panfilov passed away, he said TASS Mark Zakharov, Director of the Lenkom Theatre, Mark Varshaver.
“Our theater is associated with Gleb Anatolyevich due to many years of creative and human friendship. The Great Director gave great performances on the stage of our theatre. All of them, of course, are connected with Inna Mikhailovna Churikova, the main actress of Lenkom, and this creative union is inseparable.
This is evidenced by their entire life and their departure by a little over half a year,” he says. Telegramtheater channel.
According to Mash, Panfilov died in one of the capital’s hospitals. Possible cause of death it was second hit. Doctors fought for his life for over an hour.
director’s first time delivered at the Emergency Medicine Research Institute. Sklifosovsky suffered a stroke after a fall on May 11, 2023. Warsawer reported that Panfilov developed pneumonia. August 10 theater director knowledgeableHe said that Panfilov was continuing treatment at the hospital and was feeling well.
“Panfilov gave us Churikov”
Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova published He took a picture with Panfilov and accompanied them with the title: “Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov. To Him is the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s still hard to believe.” The photos were taken when Panfilov was leaving his wife, Inna Churikova.
Varshaver called Panfilov an outstanding director, and one cannot speak without mentioning his wife, Lenkom actress Inna Churikova (she played in this theater since 1975, died in January of this year).
“Of course, Inna Mikhailovna “created” Churikova, presented us with a wonderful actress and revealed her talent. It was unlocked thanks to his talent. “It was a miracle that they were like this,” Varshaver said.
Panfilov did not answer calls from journalists immediately after the death of his wife, but sent SMS messages.Messagesstressed that he and his wife “live as a whole, inseparable”. He married Churikova in 1970 during the filming of the movie “Inception”. He directed, he played. Since then, the actress has been his inspiration.
“He is an extremely talented, intelligent, deep person with whom everyone in the theater shares the two main loves of his life – to national culture and Inna Mihaylovna. We really hoped and believed with all our heart that Gleb Anatolyevich would overcome the illness and return to work, to us, to Mark Zakharov’s Lenkom. Unfortunately it didn’t. He went to his beloved Inna, ”the theater said in a post about the death of the director.
Inspirational Directing
Gleb Panfilov was born in 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region. He first trained to be a chemist and worked at the Sverdlovsk medical device plant. Later, as the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Sverdlovsk city committee of the Komsomol, he founded an amateur film studio at the age of 25. There he shot the films “Nylon Jacket” and “People’s Militia” with his friends in 1958.
The first major work – the feature film “No Ford on Fire” (1967) – was shot while he was an employee of Lenfilm, where he got a job after correspondence studies in the camera department of VGIK. The picture received the main prize of the film festival in Locarno (Switzerland) – “Golden Leopard”. Other large-scale film works of the director include “I want words”, “Vassa”, “Ivan Denisovich”.
The director staged performances of The White Lie and The Lioness of Aquitaine in Lenkom, and Hamlet made his theater debut. At the Theater of Nations there was a production of Panfilov’s film “The Spectator”, in which Churikova took the lead.
In 2014, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an interview with Panfilov. spoke About his profession:
“The direction is a kind of creativity, and creativity is a subtle matter, it depends on many things. From the physical and moral state of the “director”, from the atmosphere around him. If the group gets drunk on set, catches the flu, or works somewhere in the remote steppe, and the crew starves, both the creative potential and the directing level drop sharply. So today there are all the complex conditions and there is no inspiring directing yet.