 He later worked with a prominent Hungarian directors Paul Czinner ("Homo immanis", 1918) and Béla Balogh ("Under the Mountains", 1920), before moving to France.In the mid 1920s he became an international star with a string of French movies, styled "the most cherished lover of the French cinema".He marked the period, mostly being typecast as a latin lover, in the movies of Léonce Perret ("Koenigsmark", 1923; "The Nude Woman", 1926; "Morgane, the Enchantress", 1928), Germaine Dulac ("Heart of an Actress", 1924) or Marco de Gastyne ("The Lady of Lebanon", 1926).