Sergei Puskepalis
Sergei Puskepalis Сергей Пускепалис | |
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Silver Bear (2010) |
Sergei Vytautovich Puskepalis (Russian: Сергей Витаутович Пускепалис; 15 April 1966 – 20 September 2022) was a Russian actor and theatre director. He is best known for his roles in the award-winning movies Simple Things (2006) and How I Ended This Summer (2010), both directed by Alexei Popogrebski. For his performances, he won a Nika Award for Best Actor in 2008, as well as a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010.[1]
Early life
Sergei Puskepalis was born in 1966 to a Lithuanian father and a Bulgarian mother from Transnistria, in Kursk, then Soviet Union.[2]
Sergei studied in
After graduating from the
He worked as a director in the
Puskepalis was invited to many famous Russian drama theaters to stage theater productions.
Career
In 2003 Puskepalis started to act in movies. His first role was a cameo in the film The Stroll. Sergei Puskepalis met the film director Alexei Popogrebski on the set of the film Roads to Koktebel, in which his son, actor Gleb Puskepalis, played. Later Popogrebski invited Sergei Puskepalis to star roles in the films Simple Things and How I Ended This Summer.
In 2015, the film
Puskepalis was an active supporter of the
Personal life and death
Sergei Puskepalis married Elena in 1991. Their son Gleb Puskepalis was born in 1992. Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in Yaroslavl Oblast in a car accident.[citation needed] He was driving an armored minibus to Donetsk, with the intention of giving it to the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic.[4]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | The Stroll | participant in the accident | |
2006 | Simple Things | Sergei Maslov, anesthetist | |
2009 | Spring is Coming | Pavel Nikolaevich | |
2010 | Apothecary | Mikhail Streltsov | TV series |
2010 | How I Ended This Summer | Sergei Gulybin, head of the polar station | |
2011 | Siberia, Monamour | lieutenant colonel | |
2011 | My Boyfriend, Angel | father Sasha, volcanologist | |
2011 | Witness Protection | Andrei Meshechko, Major | TV series |
2011 | There Was Never a Better Brother | Jalil | |
2012 | Life and Fate | Ivan Grekov, Captain | TV series |
2012 | Divorce | Mikhail, Colonel police department | TV series |
2013 | Metro | Andrei Garin, surgeon | |
2013 | Owl Creek | Ivan Mitin, the captain of the State Security | TV series |
2013 | Eight | commander of the OMON | |
2014 | Black Sea | Zaytsev | |
2014 | Godfather | Ilya Alekhine, obstetrician-gynecologist | TV series |
2015 | Battle for Sevastopol | commander | |
2015 | Happiness is... | Oleg | |
2016 | The Icebreaker | Valentin Sevchenko | |
2016 | Sophia | Casimir IV Jagiellon | TV series |
2017 | Yolki 6 | Viktor Orlov | |
2017 | Thawed Carp | Anisimov | |
2017 | The Road to Calvary |
General Romanovsky | TV series |
2021 | Maria. Save Moscow | Commissioner | |
2022 | First Oscar | Alexander Vladimirovich Gromov | |
2022 | Land of Legends | Polyud | |
2022 | 1941. Wings Over Berlin | Semyon Zhavoronkov | |
2023 | Doctor | Khristoforov |
References
- ^ "Сергей Пускепалис". Russia-K.
- ^ Сергей Витауто Пускепалис
- ^ Клинч (in Russian)
- ^ a b "Сергей Пускепалис погиб в броневике, который купил для нужд фронта в Донбассе" (in Russian). Euronews. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
External links
- Sergei Puskepalis at IMDb