He debuted in 1959. [6 ] Since 1963 he worked at Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. He acted in almost 140 films. [7 ] He moved to Germany to his son's family in 2014. [8 ] In 2016 he appeared in short film by his grandson, Ivan.
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups …