1922-1925 actor at 1st Workers’ Proletarian Culture Theater. Since 1925 film actor, scriptwriter and director. Dep., USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950 convocation.
Deputy Chairman, Organization Committee, International Film Festival, Moscow, 1961. Films: “Postoronnyaya zhenshchina” (Alien Woman) (1929). “Partiyny bilet” (The Party Ticket) (1936).
“Bogataya nevesta” (The Rich Bride) (1938). “Traktoristy” (The Tractor Drivers) (1939). “Svinarka i pastuch” (The Swineherd and the Shepherd) (1941).
“Sekretar raykoma” (The Secretary of the Rayon Committee) (1942). “V shest chasov vechera posle voyny” (At Six in the Evening after the War) (1944). “Skazanie о zemle sibirskoy” (Siberian Saga) (1947) and “Kubanskie kazaki” (Kuban Cossacks) (1950) both of which received international prizes.
“My za mir” (We are for Peace). “Pesnya molodosti” (Song of Youth). “Sportivny prazdnik molodosti” (Youth Sports Festival) (1952).
Part I of “Idiot” (The Idiot) (1958). “Belyc nochi” (White Nights) (1960).
Member, Communist Party, since 1956.
Member, Communist Party, since 1956.