Farewell to director Viktor Merezhko will take place on Thursday, February 3, at the Moscow Cinema House, he will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. This was reported in the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
“Farewell to Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko will take place on February 3 at 11:00 am at the Central House of Cinematographers. The funeral will take place at the Troekurovsky cemetery, ”the message says.
People’s Artist of Russia, director and screenwriter Viktor Merezhko died at the age of 85 on January 30. As his daughter Maria noted, the screenwriter’s health took a turn for the worse in December 2021, when he fell ill and began to choke. It was, according to her, probably the coronavirus. He refused to go to the hospital.
Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Armen Medvedev called Merezhko a man of rare talent, very peculiar. According to him, he had a rare sense of humor and a rare ability to improvise, it was a pleasure to be at the same table with him, to listen to his stories about friends, filmmakers, and various cases from life.
Connoisseurs of Russian cinema Viktor Merezhko remembered the films “Hello and Farewell”, “Tryn-Grass”, “Leaving – Leave”, “Relatives”, “Citizen Nikanorova is waiting for you”, “A Lonely Woman Wants to Meet”, as well as the TV series “Sonka the Golden Handle ”,“ Wanted ”, which were based on scripts written by Merezhko. In total, there are more than 50 scripts for film works in his creative biography.
Merezhko is also known as a playwright. His plays “Proletarian Mill of Happiness”, “Night Fun”, “Scream”, “I am a Woman”, “Women’s Table in the Hunting Hall” and others were staged in the USSR and are still being performed in many theaters of the Russian Federation.
In 1989-1995, Viktor Merezhko hosted Kinopanorama on television. Since the 90s, he has also actively starred in crime series.
In 1987 he became a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, in 1988 – an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 2014 he received the title of People’s Artist of Russia.
Viktor Merezhko served as secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation and Moscow, was a member of the Writers’ Union, chairman of the board of the House of Cinema. Merezhko is a co-founder of the Nika Film Academy and its first president, in recent years he has been an honorary member of the Academy Council.
Source: IZ
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