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The artistic director of the Theater "Contemporary" Galina Volchek died
On Thursday, December 26, the artistic director of the Moscow Theater "Contemporary", People's Artist of the USSR Galina Volchek, died. This was reported on the theater website.
Volchek was 86 years old. On Tuesday, December 24, she was hospitalized in the Botkin hospital with bilateral pneumonia, later she fell into a coma.
Information about the farewell will be provided later, they said in a contemporary.
Galina Volchek was born on December 19, 1933 in Moscow , in the family of the famous director and film operator Boris Volchek and screenwriter Vera Maimina. In 1955, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School.
Volchek starred in many films, including Don Quixote, King Lear, Watch out the car and the autumn marathon.
Oleg Efremov was the first artistic director of the Contemporary Theater. Galina Volchek took this post in 1989. Volchek put the last performance in 2018.