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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]

Sergei Puskepalis Сергей Пускепалис
Puskepalis outside a theater in Saratov
Born	Sergei Vytauto Puskepalis (1966-04-15)15 April 1966 Kursk, RSFSR, USSR
Died	20 September 2022(2022-09-20) (aged 56) Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
Citizenship	Russian
Occupation	Theatre director Film actor
Years active	2003–2022
Awards	Nika Award - 2008 Silver Bear - 2010

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 Saratov, the Saratov Drama School, then went on active duty in the Soviet Navy, worked as an actor in the Saratov Youth Theatre, studied at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, he graduated in 2001.

After graduating from the Moscow GITIS, he staged the play "Twenty-Seven" Alexey Slapovsky and this performance was one of the festival Baltic House. Afterwards, he put on the play by Alexey Slapovsky "From red to green rat star" in Omsk "Fifth theater". Sergei Puskepalis repeatedly staged performances of Slapovsky's plays.

He worked as a director in the Samara theater "Monday". From May 2003 to 2007 Sergei Puskepalis - chief director of the Magnitogorsk Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin. 2007 - production director of the Moscow theater studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. From June 2009 to February 2010 - chief director of the Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after Fyodor Volkov in city of Yaroslavl.

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 Clinch which Sergei Puskepalis made as a film director had its premiere at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The picture is an adaptation of the play by Alexey Slapovsky which Sergei Puskepalis staged in Ufa.[3]

Puskepalis was an active supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

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.[5] 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
2003	The Stroll
2006	Simple Things	Sergei Maslov, anesthetist
2009	Spring is coming	Pavel Nikolaevich
2010	Aptekar	Mikhail Streltsov	TV series
2010	How I Ended This Summer	Sergei Gulybin, head of the polar station
2011	Siberia, Monamour	lieutenant colonel
2011	Moy paren - 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	The Road to Calvary	General Romanovsky	TV series
2021	Mariya. Spasti Moskvu
2022	Krylya nad Berlinom	Semyon Zhavoronkov

References

External links

• Sergei Puskepalis at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Sergei Vytauto Puskepalis

Sergei Vytauto Puskepalis (russisch Сергей Витауто Пускепалис; * 15. April 1966 in Kursk; † 20. September 2022 bei Rostow, Oblast Jaroslawl) war ein russischer Schauspieler und Theaterregisseur. Im Jahr 2009 erhielt er den Titel Verdienter Künstler der Russischen Föderation (Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации).

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- [en] Sergei Puskepalis

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[ru] Пускепалис, Сергей Витауто

Серге́й Ви́тауто[1] Пу́скепалис[2] (род. 15 апреля 1966, Курск) — советский и российский актёр и режиссёр театра и кино, политический деятель. Художественный руководитель Ярославского театра драмы имени Ф. Волкова с августа 2019 года. Заслуженный артист РФ (1999)[3]. С февраля 2021 года — член Центрального совета партии «Справедливая Россия — Патриоты — За правду».

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