MOSCOW, April 13 – RIA Novosti. Actor Vasily Stepanov, who played the main role in the film "Inhabited Island", fell from the window of a residential building in Moscow. Now the artist is at home.
What's happened
A source familiar with the situation told RIA Novosti that the incident occurred on Monday. According to him, the actor fell from a small height - from about the third floor.
“After the fall, he remained alive and refused hospitalization,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
As the source noted, Stepanov jumped down himself, but the motive for this action is not yet known.
The fact that happened in a house on Davydkovskaya Street was confirmed by the press service of the capital’s department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They, however, refused to name the victim.
About the actor's condition
The film is an adaptation of the fantastic story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. According to the plot, Maxim Kammerer is a pilot of the Free Search Group, whose spaceship made an emergency landing on the planet Saraksh.
Both parts were leaders in the Russian box office and were among the highest-grossing films in Europe at the end of 2009. At the same time, given the large budget (more than $35 million), the film never paid off.
"Inhabited Island" received the Golden Eagle awards for best cinematography (Maxim Osadchy), best music (Yuri Poteenko) and best editing (Igor Litoninsky).
Russian actor Vasily Stepanov, who became famous after the release of the film “Inhabited Island” by Fyodor Bondarchuk, spoke about the reasons for his fall from the fifth floor. According to Vasily, this did not happen by chance.
Yes, I fell, it was not an accident. And no one pushed me... It’s only a pity that he let people down with the filming and missed the deadlines.
– Vasily told Life. Vasily says that he jumped from the third floor, but his neighbors are sure that the actor jumped from the fifth floor of the apartment in which he lives.
According to Vasily’s brother Maxim, with his action he did not want to attract attention to himself:
Vasya will prove that this is not PR when he recovers. As the district police officer said, Vasya is not dangerous to society, he is only dangerous to himself.
Vasily’s ex-girlfriend, actress Daria Egora, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda publication that the actor suffered from manic depression and himself refused roles:
When we were together, Vasya was a very popular actor. He had many offers from worthy directors. He himself refused them. And now he is invited to act in films, but he rejects the offers. Doesn't even read. He just says no, that's all. And then for some reason he tells everyone that they forgot about him. I took care of Vasya’s health for five years. I had strong feelings for Stepanov, I went with him to hospitals, took him to psychologists. Doctors diagnosed him with manic depression.
Vasily Stepanov and Daria Egorova dated for several years, they lived together for two years, the actor proposed to Dasha. However, the wedding never followed; the couple broke up due to Vasya’s health problems.
I was provided with the necessary medical care, but the psychiatrist recommended that next time I choose a higher floor. It seemed like I was attracting attention to myself, but that was far from the case.
– Vasily told life.ru with indignation.
According to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, Vasily is now in a psychiatric hospital named after Alekseev, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Stepanov will be treated for at least a month if his relatives do not take him home under their own responsibility. After falling from the fifth floor, Vasya’s brother assured Life that he and his mother would take turns looking after Vasya.
In 2016, Vasily turned 30 years old; on his anniversary, the actor complained to journalists that he could not find a job:
I've been to a bunch of castings, but they don't take me anywhere. I negotiated with the producers, but in the end everything went quiet. I was offered to star in a video in Germany, but, unfortunately, I did not have a foreign passport, nor the connections to get one in three days. I am looking for any job, I even tried to get a job in the police.
Film “Inhabited Island”
In 2016, Vasily began acting for the first time in many years; he took part in Alexey Pimanov’s historical project “Tank Men,” but in the winter of 2017, Stepanov slipped and broke his spine; money was raised for Vasily’s treatment on the Internet; due to a spinal injury, filming had to be postponed. The day before it became known that Vasily Stepanov fell from the fifth floor of the apartment in Moscow where he lived. Stepanov was taken to the hospital with fractures of the pelvis, right shoulder, heel bones and numerous bruises.
The star of “The Inhabited Island” Vasily Stepanov (the guy simply stopped developing at one time) faced a new misfortune. Having barely begun to climb out of severe depression, the actor fell and broke his spine. At the same time, his co-star in the film, Pyotr Fedorov, has long become a superstar and appears in five films a year, even in the West.
Relatives of the Stepanovs have long suspected that Vasily was jinxed or cursed by someone. The 31-year-old guy has had to endure too many trials. A prolonged depression covered Stepanov after the success of the film “Inhabited Island,” where he played the main role, and did not allow him to develop further. He said in an interview that they don’t offer roles, and he doesn’t want anything. The actor was abandoned by his beloved due to lack of money. He vegetated in poverty, lived with his parents and complained about the lack of demand in his profession.
As soon as the light appeared at the end of the tunnel and Vasily began acting again (though not in leading roles), a new misfortune befell him. Stepanov injured his spine when he fell into icy conditions. Doctors find it difficult to say when he will now be able to walk and whether he will be able to walk at all(!) The artist has been confined to a hospital bed for a month.
“The accident happened in mid-December,” said a friend of the actor. “Vasya and his friends were returning home from the hypermarket, they were buying gifts for the New Year. It was very cold outside then, and all the slush was frozen. Near the entrance, Vasya slipped and fell straight on his back I couldn’t even get up on the steps!”
Friends immediately called an ambulance and covered the victim with jackets so that he would not freeze. They didn’t touch Vasily while he was lying there, as they understood that his musculoskeletal system might be damaged. “The doctors arrived within 10 minutes. Well, at the hospital, after an examination and an x-ray, they made a diagnosis,” said Stepanov’s friend.
According to doctors, the actor has a fracture of the hip bone and two vertebrae. Now the star of “The Inhabited Island” will have to learn to walk again.
Relatives visit Stepanov every day. “Vasya is not at all discouraged,” a friend assured the reporters. “Plus, the hospital feeds him well. Doctors have not yet made any predictions about when he will start walking again. But the rehabilitation course has already been approved - they asked to buy a corset and crutches. Despite the pain, Vasya jokes: “ But there is time to read the scripts!”
It seems to me that Vasily Stepanov should realize that he is not an actor at all and finally do something more worthy. The endless wait in this dependent profession for such a weak person as Stepanov (and I read his interview and was amazed - what is he waiting for?) will simply kill.
The star of the film “Inhabited Island” has been confined to a hospital bed for a month now. The actor was admitted to the clinic with a fracture of the hip bone and two vertebrae - he will have to learn to walk again.
“The accident happened in mid-December,” Vladislav, a friend of the actor, tells StarHit. – Vasya and his friends were returning home from the hypermarket; they were buying gifts for the New Year. It was very cold outside then, and all the slush was frozen. Near the entrance, Vasya slipped, fell on his back right on the steps and could no longer get up!”
The guys immediately called an ambulance and covered Stepanov with jackets so that he would not freeze; they did not move him, realizing that his musculoskeletal system could be damaged. “The doctors arrived within 10 minutes,” continues Vladislav. “Well, at the hospital after examination and x-rays they made a diagnosis.” Stepanov's relatives visit him every day. Even on New Year's Eve, his relatives did not leave him and came to congratulate him.
“Vasya is not discouraged at all,” says Vladislav. “Plus they feed well in the hospital.” Doctors have not yet given a forecast for when he will start walking again. But the rehabilitation course had already been approved - they asked me to buy a corset and crutches. Despite the pain, Vasya jokes: “But there is time to read scripts!”
Let us remember that recently the artist told StarHit about his intention to return to big cinema. Vasily then received several interesting offers and at the same time worked part-time as a trolleybus washer to help his family pay off their loans. At one time, the actor’s relatives borrowed large sums from banks to give him the opportunity to receive treatment. As soon as Stepanov got a job, he took the chance to be useful to the family. Apparently, Vasily will need a lot of time to recover in order to be able to work again. Now he is saved by the love of his family and faith in the best.
“Vasya helped pay off these loans. Secretly, he got a job as a night washer of trolleybuses in the bus depot - he washed 15 per shift. The next morning the brother returned, put five thousand on the table and quietly went to bed. He didn’t tell me until recently who he worked part-time. He only said: “The most important thing is that they pay!” He confessed only a few months later. The treatment ended, but the debts remained. We plan to repay in 2017. Vasya is now receiving offers to act in films. He willingly agrees, remembering his duty. I don’t ask him for money and I don’t take it. I say: “These are my problems, I’ll sort them out!” But my brother is a cunning one, he puts part of the salary on my card with the signature: “Thank you for being there!”
