A few days ago, Woody Allen became a true hero At a famous restaurant in New York. The senior director saved a man’s life by performing the Heimlich maneuver on a friend who was choking on food.

The said maneuver A first aid procedure used when a person is drowning. The airways of the person to whom this technique should be applied are often blocked by the obstruction of food, so they cannot speak, cough or breathe.

The producer performed the stunt on his friend Andrew Stein at his favorite Italian restaurant, Caravaggio. 87-year-old Oscar winner He jumped out of his seat and caught Stein, 76, as he began to choke on a piece of meat. As reported by ‘Page Six’.

Stein, who was mayor of the New York City Council from 1986 to 1994, stared in surprise as the rest of the diners, attorney Alan Dershowitz and Allen’s wife, Soon-Yi Previn, stared in surprise. turned red and could not breathe.

According to witnesses at the Trattoria, the director of “Annie Hall” quickly executed the maneuver then, with surprising strength and vigor to save her life.

“I’m ashamed to say this but Woody saved my life” “Page Six,” Stein said. “I usually order fish, but this time I chose pork and shortly after I started eating a piece of meat stuck in my throat and I was having trouble breathing,” he added. “I started to panic. I was so scared. Then Woody came to my rescue. It was really like a scene from his movies. If it weren’t for his quick reflexes, I fear he would have died. I owe him my life.” accepted.

It’s not the first time the famous director is saving a life. In 1992, his dining partner saved former ‘Saturday Night Live’ producer Jean Doumanian when he started choking on a piece of bread. At the Primola restaurant on Second Avenue.

The incident was even featured on the front page of the ‘New York Post’ at the time, and Doumainian said: From that day on, they became lifelong friends.

Allen even tried to imagine the origin of the Heimlich maneuver in his book ‘Side Effects’, a compilation of essays written between 1975 and 1980. albeit in a somewhat frightening way.

He dreamed that someone was wrapping his arms around an attractive woman and hugging her, but at that moment a piece of herring was choking.

“He hopes that one day we will live in a world where no man, woman or child is beaten by their own entrance,” Allen wrote.