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MOSCOW, July 5 Director Gleb Panfilov remains in the hospital, his condition is assessed as satisfactory, said Mark Varshaver, director of the Mark Zakharov Lenkom Theatre.
Panfilov was hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Institute with a stroke on May 11. Warsawer later told the agency that the director had developed pneumonia. The medical facility reported that the director is in serious condition. Later, according to Varshaver, Panfilov was transferred to a rehabilitation center, and from there to «one of the hospitals in Moscow.»
«Gleb Anatolyevich is in a satisfactory condition. He is now in the hospital, in the ward and undergoing treatment. Doctors say there is great hope for recovery. We all want this,» the agency's interlocutor said.
Earlier, Varshaver said that Panfilov felt better, he had already begun to speak, he was transferred from intensive care to a hospital ward.
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.