Was censored by the Soviet government for his script for the film "Hidden Enemy"/ "Amnesty Not Possible" which was labeled as "Anti-Soviet" so the original director's film negative and all copies of the movie were destroyed and replaced by Razvyazka (1970).
Emigrated to the USA in the 1990s.
Anatoli Romov died of natural causes on the 10th of December 2024 in New York city.