1. Sergei Vytautovich Puskepalis was a Russian actor and theatre director.
12 Facts About Sergei Puskepalis
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Sergei Puskepalis is best known for his roles in the award-winning movies Simple Things and How I Ended This Summer, both directed by Alexei Popogrebski.
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Sergei Puskepalis was born in 1966 to a Lithuanian father and a Bulgarian mother from Transnistria, in Kursk, then Soviet Union.
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Sergei Puskepalis worked as a director in the Samara theater "Monday".
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Sergei Puskepalis was invited to many famous Russian drama theaters to stage theater productions.
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Sergei Puskepalis's first role was a cameo in the film The Stroll.
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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.
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In 2015, the film Clinch which Sergei Puskepalis made as a film director had its premiere at the Yerevan International Film Festival.
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The picture is an adaptation of the play by Alexey Slapovsky which Sergei Puskepalis staged in Ufa.
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Sergei Puskepalis was an active supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in Yaroslavl Oblast in a car accident.
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Sergei Puskepalis was driving an armored minibus to Donetsk, with the intention of giving it to the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic.