Director Sergei Solovyov died

In Moscow, at the age of 77, director Sergei Solovyov died. Recently, he has been seriously ill, the source of Interfax said .

Soloviev was a screenwriter, film director, producer and teacher at VGIK. His directorial debut took place with two short stories according to Chekhov’s stories “Nothing to Make” and “Offer”. In 1971, he released his first full -length film "Egor Bulychev and others."

Later Solovyov shot the film “One Hundred Days after Childhood”, “Anna Karenina”, as well as the Assa trilogy, “Black Rose - the emblem of sadness, red rose - the emblem of love” and “House under the starry sky”. The film "Assa" became a symbol of perestroika in the USSR, the leader of the Kino group Viktor Tsoi starred in it.

Soloviev was a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1975), the USSR State Prize (1977), People's Artist of Russia (1993). He was also a member of the jury of the Venice Film Festival in 1981 and 1987.