{"id":2312780,"date":"2026-03-04T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2312780"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:10:09","slug":"slava-tsukerman-director-of-cult-indie-hit-liquid-sky-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/slava-tsukerman-director-of-cult-indie-hit-liquid-sky-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Slava Tsukerman, Director of Cult Indie Hit \u2018Liquid Sky,\u2019 Dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Slava Tsukerman<\/a>, the Russian-born writer and director of the stylish 1982 cult hit \u201cLiquid Sky<\/a>,\u201d died Monday. He was 85.<\/p>\n

The video distributor Vinegar Sky was among those of his associates announcing his death.<\/p>\n

Liquid Sky<\/a>\u2019s statement on social media said, \u201cWe are saddened to learn of the passing of Slava Tsukerman, director of the new wave classic Liquid Sky<\/a>. Slava was a true visionary and uncompromising artist who created an international sensation with Sky, helping to change art, fashion, and music forever.<\/p>\n

In the nearly two years leading up to the release of Liquid Sky<\/a>, Slava, along with his wife and long-time collaborator Nina Kerova, often invited us to join them for meals and visits to the New York neighborhoods which inspired them, from the East Village to Brighton Beach. Their kindness made them a pleasure to work with and we are honored that they trusted us to restore and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slava Tsukerman, the Russian-born writer and director of the stylish 1982 cult hit \u201cLiquid Sky,\u201d died Monday. He was 85. The video distributor Vinegar Sky was among those of his associates announcing his death. Liquid Sky\u2019s statement on social media said, \u201cWe are saddened to learn of the passing of Slava Tsukerman, director of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2312781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2312780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Slava-Tsukerman-Director-of-Cult-Indie-Hit-\u2018Liquid-Sky-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312782,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312780\/revisions\/2312782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}