© Publishing House "Time"Today, February 9, in Moscow, at the age of 60, the filmmaker and prose writer Valery Zalotuha died.
This was reported on his Facebook by Alexander Arkhangelsky.
Volriy Aleksandrovich Zalotukha was born in 1954 in the Tula region, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (1976) and the highest courses of scriptwriters and directors (1984, workshop of Semyon Lungin and Larisa Golubkina). In 1976-1981, he worked as a plant department in the Naro-Fominsk district newspaper “Banner of Ilyich”, in 1981-1982 he was a freelance correspondent for the newspaper “Trud”.
As a screenwriter, he debuted in 1984 by the film "Faith, Hope, Love." The greatest fame of Valery Kulotukha brought scripts to the paintings “Makarov” (1993), “Muslim” (1995) and “72 meters” (2004). Laureate of the Nick Award for the script for the Muslim.
Since 1992, Valery Polotuha published as a prose writer. Separately published the novels “The Last Communist” (2000, the short list of “Russian Boker”) and “The Great Campaign for the Liberation of India” (2006). In 2015, Roman Valeria was released as a Sveka , on which he worked for 12 years.