MOSCOW, 31 Jan. The cause of death of People's Artist of Russia Viktor Merezhko was complications after suffering a coronavirus infection. His daughter Maria told about this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. According to her, in December the director became seriously ill, but refused to call doctors or be hospitalized. At the same time, as Maria noted, he began to suffocate, but tried in every possible way to hide the illness. “It was probably a coronavirus. But dad waved it off: it would pass by itself, a common cold. And he self-medicated,” she explained. As a result, her brother had to be taken Merezhko on a CT scan against his will, where it turned out that his lungs were seriously affected. The doctors managed to make progress in the treatment, but then the artist lost his leg and they decided to perform an emergency operation under general anesthesia. According to her daughter, after that the director was no longer able to recover and «literally left in a week.» Guests of KinopanoramaGuests of «Kinopanorama» Merezhko was born in 1937 in the Rostov region. The family often moved from place to place, until in 1952 they settled in Ukraine, near Cherkassy. Nine years later, he graduated from the Lviv Polygraphic Institute (now the Ukrainian Academy of Printing), in 1968 — the screenwriting department of VGIK (now the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimov). Viktor Merezhko — scriptwriter for the feature films «Hello and Farewell «,» Bog «,» Citizen Nikanorova is waiting for you «,» Relatives «,» Flights in a dream and in reality «,» A lonely woman wants to meet you «,» Ryaba Hen, «Life Line», «Caucasian Roulette», «Red Room «, «Entering the house, look around» and many other films. As a director and screenwriter, he shot the comedy «New Year's Men», the drama «Red Room», the melodramas «Loneliness of Love» and «White Night, Gentle Night», action movie «Farmer» .
Biography of director Viktor Merezhko
