The Irony of Fate
In 1975, he gained fame in the enormously popular comedy-drama film "The Irony of Fate" as a surgeon Zhenya Lukashin. In 1977, he starred in another Ryazanov hit, "Office Romance", as timid statistician Anatoly Novoseltsev, alongside Alisa Freindlich, in which he also debuted as a singer. For both roles he was awarded the USSR State Prize. In 1978 he was named Best Actor by readers of Soviet Screen.