 His acting career seemed to be unhampered, however.Samoilov's appearance as the Soviet commander Shchors in Alexander Dovzhenko's film of the same name won him the Stalin Prize for 1941.He proceeded to become an iconic film actor of the Joseph Stalin era, playing against Lyubov Orlova in "Bright Path" and Marina Ladynina in "Six O'Clock in the Evening after the War" (1944 film; 1946 Stalin Prize).