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Vera Tschechowa received the Federal Film Prize in 1962 for the Böll film adaptation “The Bread of the Early Years”. The audience also knows her from films such as “Time of Sensitivity”, “Rausch der Verwandlung” or from appearances in television series such as “Tatort” or “Ein Fall für zwei”.
In the 1980s, with her then husband Vadim Glowna, she made the Cannes entry “Desperado City”, the Max Frisch film adaptation “Bluebeard” and the documentary feature “Chekhov in my life” about her famous Russian family. She was the great-grandniece of the playwright Anton Chekhov. Both her mother and grandmother were actresses.
Since the 1990s, Chekhova preferred to be behind the camera rather than in front of it, portraying film colleagues such as Katja Riemann, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Michael Ballhaus.
According to the information, Vera Chekhova died “after a short, serious illness”.