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Filmmaker · Belarus

Mikhail Ptashuk

Died in 2002

Mikhail Ptashuk was born on 28 January 1943 in the village of Fedziuki, in Belarus, then under occupation. Trained in Moscow at the Shchukin theatre school, he joined the Minsk studio in 1974, where he made dramas based on Belarusian literature. Awarded a state prize of the republic, of which he became People's Artist, he died in Moscow on 26 April 2002 in a car accident, having come to attend the Nika ceremony, where one of his films was competing.

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