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. Vasily was not touched while he was lying down, 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.
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).
April 10 movie star "Inhabited Island" 31 year old Vasily Stepanov fell from the window of his apartment located on the third floor. Previously, the media reported that the actor jumped from the fifth floor, but that information turned out to be erroneous. After hospitalization, Vasily was put in a cast and sent home. However, a few days later he was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Now his relatives are not allowed to see the artist. And some media outlets disseminated information that Stepanova was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The mother of the injured actor, Lyudmila, who came to the studio of the show “Let Them Talk” with Andrei Malakhov, decided to dot all the i’s. The woman said that her heir was being forcibly kept in the clinic. “Contrary to press reports, Vasya did not fall from the fifth floor, he fell from the third, breaking only his arm and leg. He went after the cat. The ambulance arrived when called, we were sent to the Botkin hospital, where a plaster cast was applied. A few days later we were allowed to go home,” said Lyudmila.
However, many of the guests present at the show did not believe the story of the actor’s mother - after all, the media had repeatedly reported about Stepanov’s depression and depressed state. Nevertheless, Lyudmila noted that her son is healthy and does not need such help. “He is a very sociable, adequate guy, not sick. We turned to Fyodor Sergeevich Bondarchuk to help rescue my son from the clinic. I don’t want to get the “vegetable” back, he still has everything ahead,” the artist’s mother emotionally assured the audience.
On the morning of April 11, 31-year-old actor Vasily Stepanov, known for his role as Maxim Kammerer in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film dilogy “Inhabited Island,” fell from the balcony of the fifth floor of an apartment in a Khrushchev building on Davydkovskaya Street in Moscow, where he lives with his elderly parents.
The press became aware of the incident late yesterday evening.
It turned out that the actor survived and was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with numerous fractures and bruises. Vasily confirmed to Life that his fall “was not accidental” - “nobody pushed him.”
“The fact of a person falling from a height” was confirmed to TASS by the press service of the GUMVD in Moscow: “The police received a report that a person fell from the window of a residential building on Davydkovskaya Street. Currently, an investigation into the incident is being carried out, based on the results of which a decision will be made decision," the press service representative told the agency. And the fact that it was “the 31-year-old actor Vasily Stepanov, who gained fame after the film “Inhabited Island,” was, in turn, clarified to the agency by a “source in medical circles.” Adding, “that this is not the first time a man decides to settle scores with life."
Vasily Stepanov was born in 1986 in Moscow into the family of a policeman and a cashier. After nine years of school, he graduated from the College of Physical Education and Sports, receiving a diploma as a physical education teacher. I went to law school, but dropped out. He made his film debut in 2008, and immediately played the leading role of Kammerer in the film “Inhabited Island: Film One.” Which was followed by “Inhabited Island: Fight” (2009), “My Boyfriend is an Angel” (episode), television melodrama “Insured Event”, Belarusian series “Kiss of Socrates” (all - 2011), “Okolofutbola” (2013, episode) .
The image of Kammerer remained the only notable work of the actor, who, according to those close to him, at first bore the burden of fame that fell on him very hard, becoming a recluse for some time, and then “could not find a worthy project for himself.” Which had a bad effect on Vasily’s “subtle mental organization.” Moreover, Stepanov’s work in his films was harshly criticized by Bondarchuk himself, who, although he got the main role, as he was looking for, “the most handsome guy in the world,” Vasily’s performance constantly brought him to nervous breakdowns. It was already too late to change the main character - this would have entailed serious financial costs. As a result, as Bondarchuk said, scenes with Vasily’s participation had to be assembled like a patchwork quilt - from pieces of different takes.
Naturally, after such characteristics from one of the leading Russian filmmakers, there could be no talk of any further successful career. The result is poverty and depression.
“Inhabited Island” is the first part of the unofficial “Kammerer cycle”, first published in 1969 in the magazine “Neva”, which also includes the stories “A Beetle in an Anthill” and “Waves Quench the Wind”. The work was subjected to the most severe censorship: as it was calculated by researchers of the Strugatskys’ work, for the next publication - 1971 - the authors had to “correct” about nine hundred places in “The Island”. Then the book was not reprinted for ten years.
The action of "Inhabited Island" takes place in the distant future, when researcher Maxim Kammerer crashes while landing on an unknown terrestrial planet Saraksh, which turns out to be the epitome of a post-apocalyptic dystopia.
The blue-eyed star of “The Inhabited Island” Vasily Stepanov has long disappeared from the sight of fans and journalists, but this week everyone is talking about his fate again. The day before, conflicting reports appeared that on April 10, the artist either fell or jumped from a fifth-floor window. At the same time, the actor has not had serious work for a long time, and he himself has been suffering from prolonged depression for many years. Medialeaks tells how Stepanov’s life turned out after Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film, when everyone thought that Stepanov was a rising star of Russian cinema.
Reports that 31-year-old Vasily Stepanov fell out of a window fifth floors in Moscow, appeared in the press on April 12. Life reported that the actor was diagnosed with a fractured pelvis, right shoulder, both heel bones and numerous bruises. According to eyewitnesses, he allegedly deliberately jumped out of the window, but many conflicting statements have accumulated around the incident. At first Stepanov stated that he fell from third floors by accident. And later he allegedly claimed that the fall was not accidental.
Yes, I fell, it was not an accident. And no one pushed me... Now I’m doing well, they put a cast on me and sent me home. It’s just a pity that he let people down with the filming and missed the deadlines,” he said.
Vasily’s younger brother Maxim stated that the actor does not have suicidal tendencies and did not jump out of the window. According to him, Vasily explained what happened with the phrase “that’s how it happened.”
Prolonged depression
Stepanov’s acting career began when he was noticed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, who was looking for actors for the film “Inhabited Island” based on the book by the Strugatsky brothers. The director liked him despite the fact that he had no acting experience (not counting his participation in public service advertising). Boris Strugatsky also approved of Stepanov’s choice for the role of Maxim Kammerer. After the film was released, Vasily quickly acquired an army of fans and admirers.
After filming the film, the actor, while continuing his studies at a theater university, took part in several more projects: the films “An Insured Event,” “The Kiss of Socrates,” “Okolofootball” and the play “Veronica Decides to Die.” This is where his acting career, in fact, ended.
In recent years, Stepanov lived with his parents.
According to the artist, financial difficulties never ended: he spent the fee for “Inhabited Island” very quickly, and did not receive any money for photo sessions and interviews. At the same time, Vasily declared that he no longer wanted to act in films. The separation from his fiancée Daria Egorova, who repeatedly said that Stepanov had been diagnosed with “manic depression,” was also a heavy blow.
Vasya has psychological trauma that lasted for several years. Nobody can figure out what's wrong with him. It's just a psychological breakdown. He starts talking and can easily forget how he started the phrase,” she explained.
Prolonged depression required quality treatment, which required money. According to Stepanov, his family took out a loan to pay for medical care, and the actor himself washed trolleybuses at night to earn at least something.
A year ago, Stepanov also made no progress with his work.
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 didn’t have a foreign passport, and I didn’t have the connections to get one in three days. “I’m looking for any job, I even tried to get a job in the police,” he said.
At the end of 2016, physical problems were added to the psychological ones: the actor slipped on the stairs, fell and broke his spine. Stepanov’s relatives then asked everyone who cared for financial help.
After seven years of unemployment, the actor finally began to receive offers. Last year, he even opened an Instagram account, where he posts personal photographs and photos from the filming of the “Tank Men” project. However, filming was hindered by a spinal injury.
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