Vladimir Garin
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Vladimir Garin was a Russia
n actor, and star of the critically acclaimed film Vozvrashcheniye
(Russian: Возвращение), titled as The Return in the English
-speaking world.
Garin drowned in Lake Osinoveckoe - 69 km from Saint Petersburg
, where a portion of The Return was filmed, just before the film's international debut - while boating with a friend, Misha. Both boys were challenged to jump into the lake by two local girls who were slightly intoxicated, and Garin rose to the challenge. However, as theorized by his mother Tatyana Garina, a cramp seized his legs, disenabling him from swimming. He managed to grab a hold of the dinghy, but it capsized.
"Misha - who was then on the shore - began to shout and called me on the mobile. But on the way there, I was already sure he was dead." said Tatyana Garina. She also said her "maternal intuition" told her Volodia died immediately and suffered little pain. "When the divers found him three days later, I had the impression that he was just sleeping," she said. "He had a very calm face."
In the beginning of the film Vozvrashcheniye (the character he plays) challenges Ivan, his younger brother, to jump into a lake.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n actor, and star of the critically acclaimed film Vozvrashcheniye
Vozvrashcheniye
The Return is a 2003 Russian film released internationally in 2004. It tells the story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions...
(Russian: Возвращение), titled as The Return in the English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
-speaking world.
Garin drowned in Lake Osinoveckoe - 69 km from Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, where a portion of The Return was filmed, just before the film's international debut - while boating with a friend, Misha. Both boys were challenged to jump into the lake by two local girls who were slightly intoxicated, and Garin rose to the challenge. However, as theorized by his mother Tatyana Garina, a cramp seized his legs, disenabling him from swimming. He managed to grab a hold of the dinghy, but it capsized.
"Misha - who was then on the shore - began to shout and called me on the mobile. But on the way there, I was already sure he was dead." said Tatyana Garina. She also said her "maternal intuition" told her Volodia died immediately and suffered little pain. "When the divers found him three days later, I had the impression that he was just sleeping," she said. "He had a very calm face."
In the beginning of the film Vozvrashcheniye (the character he plays) challenges Ivan, his younger brother, to jump into a lake.
External links
- Vladimir Garin at the IMDB