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Vasily Shukshin

Died in 1974

Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974), born on 25 July 1929 in Srostki, in Siberia, worked as a labourer and a sailor, then as a schoolteacher and headmaster in his village. He then entered the film institute in Moscow, in the workshop of Mikhail Romm, and published his first story in 1958. From then on he pursued three careers at once: actor, director and short-story writer. He died on 2 October 1974, aboard a ship, during the shooting of a film by Sergei Bondarchuk.

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