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.