The actor began to lose his human appearance.
Viktor Perevalov made a name for himself throughout the Soviet Union when he was only ten. 100 boys applied for the role of Ivanushka in Alexander Rowe’s fairy tale “Marya the Mistress,” but it was Perevalov who got it. So he got a ticket to a big movie. But the popularity quickly faded, and soon he became addicted to the bottle.
The artist’s fairy tale crashed into a monstrous reality. He began to grow up and lose his childish traits. Film offers were becoming fewer and fewer, and popular love was fading away.
The dashing 90s became a test for the once most famous boy in the USSR. To feed his family, he worked as a loader in a liquor store, picked apples on a state farm, and laid sleepers.
The last attempt to revive Perevalov’s career happened in 2006. The actor was 55. By that time he had already suffered a heart attack and was suffering from an ulcer. Four years later, the actor was found barely alive at the Leningradsky station; he was mistaken for a homeless person. He soon died of a heart attack.
Still from the film “Graffiti” (2006)
