Cinema Works
During all his life Semyonov wrote screenplays for films, mainly for the ones after his own works. The writer’s full filmography numbers more than 20 filmed works, which (“Major Whirlwind” (1967), “Seventeen Instants of Spring” (1973), “Petrovka, 38” (1980), “Tass Is Authorized to Announce…” (1984), “Confrontation” (1985)) continue to be the hits of the Russian cinema.
Semyonov also directed the film “Night at the 14th Parallel” (1971) and acted in such films as “Weekdays and Holidays” (1961) and “Solaris” (1971, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky).
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