The key role the former fist policeman Fedor Makashin (film series Earthly Love and Destiny Yevgeny Matveyev ).

Spiridonov bitterly recalled that he was after the movie Destiny won universal hatred among generations of soldiers and workers in the rear, and at the youth, told how he was repeatedly recognized on the streets and tried to beat, so hated was a traitor Makashin.

However, this image has become a kind of prologue to the main role − Fyodor Saveliev in the long Soviet TV series Eternal Call (19 episodes).

Spiridonov's voice said over the years the world of cinema stars − Alain Delon, Gerard Depardieu, Jack Nicholson, Michel Piccoli, Patrick Macnee, Martin Landau, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amitabh Bachchan.

On that fateful evening, 7 December 1989, and Spiridonov had to go to Minsk, where in the next few days started shooting a new film based on the novel of Vasily Belov All ahead ,[3] where he was to play a major role.

For a couple of hours before leaving the house, he decided to take a nap, punishing Valentin that she woke him up at the right time.