The Director spoke about the tragic demise of the actress of theatre of MIME and gesture. Renata reported the death of a very special actress who had a hearing impairment. Elena Velichko has played an important role in the fate of Litvinova.

Renata Litvinova on the page in social network Instagram announced the sad news. The Director and screenwriter talked about the death of a loved one. Became actress Elena Velichko, which meant a lot to Litvinova and played in her fate is very important.

Litvinova has published old black-and-white photographs from the archives of the Director Sergei Solovyov, where Lena Velichko young and beautiful.

Renata publicly said goodbye to familiar actress, a loss which deeply affected.

“Helen Velichko – farewell to… the Actress of theatre of MIME and gesture, a type of YAI from my story “to Possess and belong” which Valery Todorovsky directed the film “country of the deaf”. RIP”, – signed photo of Renata Litvinova.

The picture of the “country of the deaf” became a cult, joined the list of top 100 Russian films at the prestigious film magazine. And most importantly brought incredible popularity, gave a cool start to the performers of the main roles. The film was the debut for Dina Korzun and second (and in fact the first) to Chulpan Khamatova. As they say, after the release of this film on screens both woke up famous. This is a poignant story of a dancer named Yaya (played by Dina Korzun), which is almost hears nothing, and only dream about – save money and move to “the country of the deaf”, where there is peace and goodness.

A type of dreamy girl with hearing impairment was a real woman – actress Elena Velichko.

As reported by Renata Litvinova, she served in the theater of MIME and gesture. But such glory as who played her in the movie Korzun, Velichko not achieved. On the silver screen, she appeared only once in the film 1990 “Leningrad, November”. A joint Soviet-German film Directors Oleg Morozov and Andreas Schmidt, too, by the way, was filmed scenario Renata Litvinova.