Один день Ивана Денисовича
At the same time as his theatre work in the fifties, he directed a number of plays for television including episodes of "ITV Television Playhouse" and "ITV Play of the Week". He also started to direct films which he continued to do through the sixties, including a screen version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" with Tom Courtenay.