7 domestic actors who tragically died on the set

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

While watching films, viewers often admire the skillful tricks that the actors perform. In the most dangerous moments, the main actors are often replaced by professional stuntmen, but sometimes the artists insist on independent work in all scenes without exception. But sometimes actors have to pay the highest price to be able to film without stunt doubles. In our review, domestic actors who died on the set.

Andrey Rostotsky

The son of Stanislav Rostotsky and Nina Menshikova was not only an actor, but also a stuntman and stunt director. He was very talented and always worked carefully, calculated possible dangers in advance, and was collected and focused during work. And he died during the filming of the film "My Border", in which he acted as a director.

Andrei Rostotsky, when choosing a nature for filming the next scene of the film, fell off a cliff near the Maiden's Tears waterfall near the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort. The 30-meter cliff left no chance of survival. The actor and director received many injuries, including a craniocerebral one. Andrey Rostotsky died on the operating table.

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Evgeny Urbansky

The creative biography of the actor was very bright. Evgeny Urbansky, after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, was accepted into the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater. On the theatrical stage he sometimes played 28 performances a month. The debut of the actor in the cinema was also successful. He made his debut in Yuri Raizman's film "The Communist" and instantly became one of the most popular and recognizable actors in the country. Later, Yevgeny Urbansky starred with Grigory Chukhrai, Andrei Konchalovsky, Vasily Ordynsky and other directors.

While working on Alexei Saltykov's film "The Director" Yevgeny Urbansky had to rush through the dunes in the frame and overtake the convoy. The first take seemed to the second director not quite effective, and he suggested reshooting the scene. Evgeny Urbansky supported the director and again got behind the wheel of the car. This time, a kind of "flight" by car through the dunes was unsuccessful. The car turned over, the actor received many injuries. He was not taken to the hospital. He was only 33 years old.

Alexander Chekaevsky

Alexander Chekaevsky was one of the most sought-after actors at the Pushkin Leningrad Theater. In addition to serving in the theater, the actor acted in films and, according to the recollections of his colleagues, was very talented. In 1963, while filming Hamlet directed by Grigory Kozintsev, he was hit by a train and instantly died.

Inna Burduchenko

Shooting in the film "Flower on a Stone" was supposed to be the second work in the cinema for the young talented actress Inna Burduchenko. Inna's heroine had to carry the banner out of the burning building. But at some point, a wooden burning barrack fell on the young actress. It was pulled out of the fire by a simple miner Sergei Ivanov, who himself received multiple burns.

Inna was brought to a burn center in Donetsk (filming took place in a mining region). For 15 days, doctors fought for the life of the young actress, and numerous donors donated blood and skin for the girl. It was not possible to save Inna Burduchenko, who was also three months pregnant. The director of the film "Flower on a Stone" was sentenced to two years for the death of the actress.

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

The actress, who starred in Mimino and The Volunteers, The Run and Seven Nurses, was popular and loved by audiences and directors. She could have played many more bright roles, but an accident on the set in Ordzhonikidze took the life of a talented actress.

When the entire film crew left for the city, the actress was left alone in the house where the filmmakers lived. It was November, it was already quite cold, and the house was not heated. Michaela had hoped to keep warm with the lighting fixtures, but she hadn't thought that the heat from the lamps could cause a fire. The actress woke up when a blanket caught fire and slid onto one of the spotlights, but she could not get out of the fire on her own due to carbon monoxide poisoning. When the door was opened, the fire began to spread even more rapidly due to the draft. The actress, who received severe burns, was urgently sent to Moscow, but even the best specialists in the country were unable to save the life of Mikaela Drozdovskaya.

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Yuri Gusev

The remarkable actor did not immediately find his calling. He managed to graduate from an electromechanical technical school, serve in the army and work in his specialty in various research institutes. In his student years and during his work, Yuri Gusev was an active participant in amateur performances. And then he decided to change his profession and become an actor. On account of his about 90 works in films, he starred in the films "Eternal Call" and "Long Road in the Dunes", "Winter Evening in Gagra" and "Return of the Resident".

An absurd accident caused the death of Yuri Gusev in 1991 while filming in Tashkent. The actor simply stumbled and fell, but so unsuccessfully that he received an open head injury, from which he died on the spot.

Sergey Bodrov Jr

The talented actor and director died in 2002 while working on the film "The Messenger" in the Karmadon Gorge. After the end of the shooting day, the whole group was heading to the city when the glacier began to descend rapidly. Ice and stones, moving at a speed of about 180 kilometers per hour, covered the entire gorge for a short time. 125 people were buried under the 60-meter layer. Together with Sergei Bodrov, more than 40 people from his film crew were killed. All of them are listed as missing, the bodies of the dead have never been found.

Cinema is a small life that an actor lives in the frame. It would seem that there is nothing wrong with playing a tragic role. But when this role turns out to be not played, but already lived in real life, it becomes clear why the actors are so superstitious and often do not want to play the heroes who die in the frame.