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Filmmaker · Belarus

Richard Viktorov

Died in 1983

Richard Viktorov was born on 7 November 1929 in Tuapse. After studying literature at the University of Lviv, he entered the directing department of the Moscow film institute, from which he graduated in 1959, a pupil of Sergei Yutkevich. Assigned to the Minsk studio, he shot his first films there. Struck down by a stroke during the shooting of his last film, which another director had to finish, he died on 8 September 1983, aged fifty-three, and was buried in Mitino Cemetery in Moscow.

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