Writer and screenwriter Alexander Timofeevsky died on January 7 at the age of 88. The death of the author of the song of the animated Crocodile Gena “Let them run awkwardly” was reported by film critic Sergei Kapkov. According to him, the poet died on Christmas morning.
“He was a real figure in animation films,” writes Kapkov. “He punched and defended other people’s scripts, wrote his own, composed lyrics.”
According to the film expert, the song from the cartoon about Gena and Cheburashka has become “the birthday anthem of every Soviet person.”
Alexander Timofeevsky was born in Moscow, graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK. For two decades, from 1963 to 1983, he worked as an editor at Soyuzmultfilm.
The exact cause of death is unknown. Timofeevsky himself wrote in a social network that at the end of October he was admitted to the hospital. In the ward, he whiled away the time, writing poetry, as well as publishing his past works.
The last post of the poet, as Kapkov points out, appeared the day before – a poem about the birth of Jesus and the Magi who came to him:
“And so beautiful and radiant
A staring star at them,
That death will never happen again
It will never be easy. “
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