Basil died Pichul – BBC

55-year life died Vasily Pichul, film director, author of the film “Little Vera”, which is considered “artistic manifesto of restructuring.” Date and place of goodbyes are not yet known.

On the death of Basil Picula became known the day on 26 July. On the death of the director in his blog on Facebook wrote producer Mark Levin, who worked together with Picula on the painting “The city of Sochi dark night”.

«This happened at night. He had a tumor in the lungs, “- said Levin agency TASS.

Pichul born in Zhdanov (now – Mariupol) of the Ukrainian SSR, but when the time came, decided to get education in Moscow. So he came to VGIK, the workshop Marlena Hutsieva. Even before the release of the young director made the debut full-length film, “You are someone, stariche?”, In which the main role played by luminaries Vaclav Dvorzhetsky Sergey Plotnikov and future stars Elena and Alexey Mayorov hot. The film, which already outlined the features pichulovskogo style, went almost unnoticed, but already with his next work, he immediately went down in history of Russian cinema.

«Little Faith” came out six years later – in 1988.

To remove it Pichul went to his home and took Zhdanov so that the film is not just a hit and exploded Soviet film distribution – picture looked 55 million viewers, and not one of them remained indifferent. They say that while watching at the dacha of Mikhail Gorbachev, the then Secretary General got up and walked out of the viewing room.

The film was accused that he denigrates Soviet youth, reproached too frank erotic scenes that made sex symbols Natalia scoundrel and Andrei Sokolov.

On the other hand, “Little Vera” has received from delighted spectators title of “artistic manifesto adjustment”; he now seems pretty accurate. Pichul, of course, did not seek to discredit Soviet reality, which is already crumbling before our eyes. The picture is difficult to attribute to the notorious “dill”, which, however, was rushed to the screens after the “Little Faith”, showing that the masses are still susceptible to “dirty realism”. In fact Pichul recorded picture is not so much expansion as the unstoppable disintegration of the familiar life and the country, which became the personification of characters in the film Vera and Sergey.

After the “Little Faith” Picula’s career went into decline. A year later, he released a tragicomedy “In Sochi dark night” with indignant and Zharkov, and then do the project countries as the Russian life 90.

In 1993, for example, on the screens out “Dreams idiot” – perelopachenny “Golden Calf” by Ilf and Petrov and Sergei Krylov as Ostap Bender.

In 1999, the director has given the opportunity to be realized on the screen to another showman – a major role in the wildly blockbuster “The sky in diamonds” played Nikolai Fomenko and his partner was Anzhelika Varum. However, the film does not remember this, and the fact that in one of the episodes in the sky soared fountain “Friendship of Peoples”.

The zero Pichul completely gone though out of sight, but this disappearance was, in a sense misleading. Back in the 1990s, he worked in parallel with the movie TV project – a program “Dolls” and “Old songs about the main three.” When the Russian cinema beginning of a fundamentally changed, abandoning tragifarsovoy carnival 90s Pichul finally went to the TV. Among his recent works – setting pervokanalnogo “Rally” and made for TV3 and REN-TV series “The Fifth Guardian” and “the boundaries of time.”