 In 1931, he began working as a film director.In 1934, he directed one of the first Soviet musical comedies, Accordion (poem by A. Zharov), about the life of Komsomol village, where he played the role of a kulak's son.The theme of the Civil War in Ukraine, the heroic past of Ukrainian and Russian peoples formed the basis of the film "The Ballad of Cossack Golota" (from a story by AP Gaidar "R. VS", 1937) and the film - the legend "Riders" (in YI Janowski).