People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, film director, screenwriter, film producer and teacher, creator of the film “Assa” Sergei Soloviev died at the age of 77. This was reported by a TASS source.
According to the interlocutor of the agency, Soloviev died today at home.
The cause of death is not named.
Sergei Soloviev was born in 1944 in Karelia and until the age of six he lived in North Korea, where his father served. Since childhood, he has been engaged in the theater. In the 1960s, he worked as a technical employee at the Leningrad television, later graduated from the directing department of the All-Russian State Institute of Civil Engineering.
From 1985 until the last days of his life, Sergei Soloviev taught at the VGIK at the directing department, directed the directing and acting workshops, and was a professor.
He was also a laureate of the USSR State Prize, the Lenin Komsomol Prize, and the Kinotavr Prize. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.
Among his cult films are Assa (1987), The Black Rose is the emblem of sadness, the red rose is the emblem of love (1989), One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975), as well as Three Sisters (1994), Anna Karenina ”(2009),“ Classmates ”(2010).
Source: Rosbalt
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