MOSCOW, June 18 Director Gleb Panfilov is getting better, he has already begun to speak, he was transferred from intensive care to a hospital ward, said the director of the Lenkom Theater Marka Zakharov» Mark Varshaver.
Panfilov was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Institute with a stroke on May 11th. Warsawer later told the agency that the director had developed pneumonia. The medical institution reported that the director had been in serious condition all this time.
«Gleb Anatolyevich is already better, he has already started talking… He is in one of the hospitals, already in the ward. He was transferred from the rehabilitation center. The main thing is that he is in the ward, and not in intensive care,» he said agency interlocutor.
“This is already great. Let's hope that soon we will not only hear it, but also see it,” Warsawer concluded.
Panfilov is 89 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.
