Victor Merezhko died

On January 30, in Moscow, at the age of 84, the scriptwriter, playwright, director and actor Viktor Merezhko died.

This was reported by TASS with reference to the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko was born in 1937 in the German colony Olginfeld in the Rostov region, in the early 1950s the family moved to the Cherkasy region of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1961 he graduated from the Technology Faculty of the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute in Lviv, in 1968-the scenario faculty of VGIK in the specialty of Kindeadurgist.

He made his debut in a full -length script for the children's film “Tigers on Ice” (1971) Valentina Kozachkov and Albert Osipov. In total, he wrote scenarios for more than 50 films and series, among them “Hello and Goodbye” (1972) Vitaly Melnikov, “Tryn-grass” (1976) Sergei Nikonenko, “The citizen of Nikanorov” (1978) Leonid Maryagin, “Going away” (1978) Viktor Tregubovich, “Relatives” (1981) of Nikita (1981) Mikhalkova, “Flights in a dream and in reality” (1982) of Balayan’s Roman, “Young Fun” (1987) Evgenia Gerasimova, “Dog Pir” (1990) Leonid Menaker, “Kurochka Ryaba” (1994) Andrei Konchalovsky, “Provincials” (2002) Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Up, “Entering the house,“ Entered the house ” (2019) Andrei Malyukov and Sergey Keshishev.

According to Viktor Merezhko, 12 cartoons were shot, including Vasilisa Beautiful (1977) by Vladimir Pekar, Valentine Karavaeva, Cat Kotofeevich (1981), Fox Patrikeevna (1982) and “Wolf - Galina Barinova,“ Adventure Adventure ”(1981). Penguinka Lolo "(1986–1987) Gennady Sokolsky and Kenziro Yoshida.

Victor Merezhko also starred in episodic roles, in the 2000s and 2010s he created a number of films and series as a director. He wrote more than 15 plays that were staged in many theaters of the Soviet Union and continue to go on the modern Russian stage. The most famous of them are the “Proletarian Mill of Happiness”, “Night Fun”, “Scream”, “I am a woman”, “Women's table in the hunting room”, “Two from a high road”, “Caucasian roulette”.

In addition, Viktor Merezhko led on television the programs dedicated to the cinema: “Kinopanorama” (1989–1994) and “My Cinema” (1994–2002). He was one of the creators of the TV-6 Moscow channel, the first vice-president of the Moscow independent broadcasting corporation, the artistic director of the Cascade television company, the artistic director of the Wheel of History, the co-founder and first president of the Nico film account, one of the organizers of the CIS and Baltic Cinema Film Festival.

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1987, for the script for the film "Flights in a dream and in reality"), People's Artist of Russia (2014).