Screenwriter Yuri Korotkov died at the age of 69.

Screenwriter, film director and writer Yuri Korotkov, who participated in the creation of the films "9th Company" by Fyodor Bondarchuk and "Dudes" by Valery Todorovsky, died at the age of 70. The death of the screenwriter was announced on Saturday, April 5, by TV critic Arina Borodina in her Telegram channel.

"The famous screenwriter Yuri Korotkov has died. He studied first at the Literary Institute, then at the Higher Screenwriting courses in the Workshop of Semyon Lungin with Valery Frid. <...> Dozens of excellent films, scripts for which Korotkov wrote, remained in the history of cinema," she wrote.

Korotkov worked on the scripts of the films "Lost in Siberia" by Alexander Mitta, "Accident — the Cop's Daughter" and "The Wolfhound" by Mikhail Tumanishvili, "The American Woman" by Dmitry Meskhiev, "Wild Love" by Vilen Novak, as well as on many other films that won the love of the audience.

"Korotkov's name, by the way, was "given" by friends and colleagues to one of the main characters of the Kamenskaya series, Valera Todorovsky was the main producer there: Sergey Garmash, Kamenskaya's friend and colleague, a police major — his character's name in the series is Yuri Korotkov. It was such a cinematic "hello," Borodina shared.

She also expressed her condolences to the family and friends of the screenwriter.

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