Renowned Director and Screenwriter Gleb Panfilov Passes Away at the Age of 90

In Moscow today, on August 26, at the age of 90, the director, screenwriter, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR Gleb Panfilov died. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the director of the Lenkom Theater Mark Varshaver.

In May, the director was hospitalized in one of the capital’s clinics with a stroke.

Gleb Panfilov is known as the director of such films as “There is no ford in the fire” (1967), “The Beginning” (1970), “Vassa” (1983), “Mother” (1990), “In the First Circle” (2006) and others .

As reported EADaily in January 2023, after a long illness, his wife, People’s Artist of the USSR, died Inna Churikova.