Died Georgy Yungvald -Khilkevich

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

There is mourning in the Union of Cinematographers. Famous cinematographer Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich passed away today. The cause of death was heart failure.

The 81-year-old filmmaker was hospitalized urgently last week. On November 5, doctors decided to introduce Georgy Emilievich into a drug-induced coma. He passed away this morning. As the director's wife told reporters, the issue of farewell and funeral will be decided at the end of the day.

Yungvald-Khilkevich was born and raised in Tashkent, graduated from the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theater and Art Institute. He made his debut as a director in 1966 at the Odessa Film Studio with the comedy "Formula of the Rainbow". Three years later he shot the film Dangerous Tours, in which Vladimir Vysotsky, Nikolai Grinko and Efim Kopelyan played.

“I shot a picture for myself - I didn't give a damn about what the audience and critics would say,” the director once said about his most famous work. “The Three Musketeers” is a gratitude to Alexandre Dumas. As a child, I spent two years in a cast, and Dumas helped me not to go crazy. As soon as I became a director, I had a dream to make a film based on a work that left me among normal people."

All-Union fame came to the director in 1978, after the release of the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers." Then there were tapes "The Musketeers Twenty Years Later", "The Mystery of Queen Anne, or The Musketeers Thirty Years Later." In 2009, Georgy Emilievich's last film, The Return of the Musketeers, or the Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin, was released.

“He was a living person and worked intensively to the last,” Oleg Tabakov, who played the role of the King of France in the film “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”, told reporters.