Worked with 2 greatest post WW2 Soviet masters: Sergei Parajanov and
Andrei Tarkovsky; he was in former's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"
and latter's "Mirror", both films are featured in
Mikhail Vartanov's
Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) in
a poetic chapter on the friendship of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov.