Eduard Volodarskiy was born on February 3, 1941 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and actor, known for Life and Fate (2012), Odinokiy igrok (1995) and Dark Planet (2008). He was married to Farida A. Volodarskaya. He died on October 8, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
Known from his most famous works - screenplays "Check on the Road" and "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" Alexis Herman, "At Home Among Strangers, Stranger Among Friends" by Nikita Mikhalkov, "The Penal Battalion" Nikolai Dostal and many others.
His first play, "our debts", was staged in Moscow Art Theater Oleg Yefremov, it was a hundred and twenty-nine year old Theatre.
He wrote eleven plays, and more than fifty scenarios.
Some of his scripts did not mesh with the Soviet government's carefully manicured version of war-time events, and were shelved by the authorities for several years.
What I want is to force viewers to watch a serious piece, where there aren't just pointless gun battles and a pile of dead bodies. (from his last televised interview shortly before his death)