Valentin Osafovich Litovsky (Russian: Валентин Осафович Литовский; 1921, Moscow – 1941, Minsk) was a Soviet actor, starred in the film Young Pushkin.[1] Son of writer Osaf Litovsky.
Biography
editHe studied at the Moscow school No. 167, later No. 1113.
The actor, who starred in a role — young Alexander Pushkin in movie Young Pushkin, staged by director Abram Naroditsky at the studio Lenfilm in 1936, the centenary of the poet's death.[2]
Valentin wanted to enter the GITIS to become a director, but these plans were interrupted by the war. October 23, 1939 was called Sverdlovsk RVC (Moscow Oblast, Moscow, Sverdlovsk District). In July (according to other sources — in October) 1941, it cuts short the life of the actor in the theater of military operations of World War II, near Minsk.[3]