 All this led to a split, restructuring and a quick demise of the Soviet cinema.After Kulidzhanov left the Union, he wasn't able to direct anything up until the 1990s when he made his two final films.Both of them symbolized a return to his earlier days of film making and were written by his wife Natalia Anatolievna Fokina (born 1927), a professional screenwriter whom he met during the 1940s.