Ruski redatelj započinje karijeru 1975. filmom Shire shag, maestro!. Ostali važniji filmovi su mu Na skolzkoy doroge (1977), Dobryaki (Kind men,1979), My iz dzhaza (Jazzmen, 1983), Zimnij vecher v Gagrakh (Winter Evening In Gagry, 1985), Kuryer (The Messenger, 1987), Gorod Zero (City Zero, 1988), Tsareubijtsa (The Assassin of the Tsar, 1991), Sny (Dreams, 1993), Amerikanskaya doch (American Daughter, 1995), Den polnoluniya (Day of the Full Moon, 1998), Yady, ili vsemirnaya istoriya otravlenij (Poisons or the World History of Poisoning, 2001) i Vsadnik po imeni smert' (2004).