[HIGHLIGHTS] Actress and director Vera Chekhova is dead

Actress and director Vera Chekhova is dead. The Ute Nicolai agency announced this on Thursday, citing the family.

She appeared in almost 100 roles from the 1950s to the 1990s. Chechowa received the Federal Film Prize in 1962 for the Böll film adaptation “The Bread of the Early Years’. In the 1980s, with her then-husband Vadim Glowna, she shot the Cannes entry “Desperado City,” the Max Frisch film adaptation "Bluebeard"