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Valeriy Aleksandrovich Bessarab
Валерий Бессараб
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18 August 1944 - 9 January 2013
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Valery Bessarab is a Soviet and Ukrainian actor whose career flourished in the sixties. Best known for the role of Lieutenant Ivan Kirilov from the film "Keys from the sky" . Valery Alexandrovich is a native of Moscow, where he was born on August 18, 1944. In his youth, he was fond of football and for a long time, even in parallel with the acting profession, played football at a professional level, speaking for the backup of the Kiev “Dynamo”. In the future, the injuries he received in sports, along
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Valery Bessarab is a Soviet and Ukrainian actor whose career flourished in the sixties. Best known for the role of Lieutenant Ivan Kirilov from the film
"Keys from the sky" .
Valery Alexandrovich is a native of Moscow, where he was born on August 18, 1944. In his youth, he was fond of football and for a long time, even in parallel with the acting profession, played football at a professional level, speaking for the backup of the Kiev “Dynamo”. In the future, the injuries he received in sports, along with other sometimes accidental, but severe injuries, leg fractures, made themselves felt in adulthood, making the actor a disabled person.
He made his film debut very young, back in 1961, and immediately starred in the social drama Happy Birthday!, was noticed and received invitations to other films. He studied at the Kiev Institute of Theatre Art, graduating in 1965. Back in his year of study in 1964, he played his most famous role in Keys from the Sky, becoming known throughout the country. In the status of a star was accepted in the Russian theater named after Lesya Ukrainka in Kiev, where he served all his life.
Bessarab played on the stage and in the cinema about a hundred roles, proved himself to be an incredibly bright, original, interesting actor, a real master who talentedly combined tragic and comedic roles in his work, in each of them showing images integral and memorable.
Developed severe foot disease almost chained him to the house and crutches. The actor left the theater and cinema, playing his last cameo role in the movie in 1992 in the film “Finding the Golden Phallus”. Before that, in 1988, he masterfully voiced Jim Hawkins in the animated film Treasure Island.
Next to her husband in sorrow and joy for more than forty years was his wife, actress Irina Duka, who took care of him in the last years of his life. The artist died on January 9, 2013.