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MOSCOW, June 1 Director Gleb Panfilov is still in serious condition in intensive care, the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine reported.
Formerly Director Theater «Lenkom» Mark Varshaver said that Panfilov will be transferred from the Sklifosovsky Institute to rehabilitation next week.
«The condition is serious,» the medical facility said.
Panfilov was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Institute with a stroke 11 May. Warsawer later told the agency that the director had developed pneumonia. The medical facility reported that the director had been in serious condition all this time.
Panfilov is 88 years old. He was born on May 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk. In 1966, he began working at Lenfilm, where he filmed his feature debut «There is no ford in the fire» (received the main prize at the Locarno Film Festival). Panfilov also shot the pictures «I ask for words», «Theme», «Valentina», «Vassa», «Mother» and others, staged performances at Lenkom and the Theater of Nations. In 1970, he made the film «The Beginning» with Inna Churikova in the title role, during the filming they got married and lived together for more than 50 years. People's Artist of the USSR Churikova died on January 14, 2023 in Moscow after a long illness.