Marina Vlady Has Died

The French film star and widow of Vladimir Vysotsky has died at the age of 88.

French actress and writer of Russian descent Marina Vlady has died at the age of 88. Her family announced her death on September 24, according to AFP.

Marina Vlady was born on May 10, 1938, in Clichy, France, to a family of Russian émigrés. Her real name is Marina de Polyakova-Baidarova.

Vlady was one of the most prominent actresses in French cinema during the second half of the 20th century. She appeared in several dozen films and worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, Marco Ferreri, and other renowned directors.

In 1963, Vladi won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Marco Ferreri’s *The Married Couple*. Other notable films in which she appeared include Jean-Luc Godard’s *Two or Three Things I Know About Her*, Orson Welles’ *Falstaff*, and *The Princess of Cleves*.

In the USSR and post-Soviet countries, she was also widely known as the wife of the poet, actor, and bard Vladimir Vysotsky. They married in 1970 and remained together until his death in 1980.

In addition to film, Vlady acted in theater and wrote books. She dedicated one of them—“Vladimir, or The Interrupted Flight”—to Vysotsky.

It is worth noting that Marina Vlady visited Belarus in 1969 together with Vladimir Vysotsky. The two artists were in the midst of a passionate romance at the time. They settled in a simple village house in the village of Litovka near Novogrudok, about ten kilometers from Lake Svitiaz. They slept in a hayloft and went for walks in the surrounding area. They took a trip to Novogrudok for a few days. This was, in essence, their honeymoon, although Vysotsky and Vlady officially married six months later, on January 13, 1970.

Vysotsky was in Belarus on film-related business: his friend, director Viktor Turov, was filming *Sons Go to Battle* based on a screenplay by Ales Adamovich, and Vysotsky was writing songs for the film.

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