In 1984, he enrolled in the faculty of script writing at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), entered the course of Kira Paramonova.

In the same year, he published the story "The Miracles of Technology" in the VGIK newspaper "The Way to the Screen", since then his writing career began.

On the parallel course Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Bashirov, Ivan Okhlobystin, Tigran Keosayan, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Rashid Nugmanov were studying at that time at the Directing Faculty.

The film starred Juozas Budraitis, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nina Ruslanova, Natalya Krachkovskaya, including some young actresses – Irina Feofanova, Maryana Polteva.

Critics classify the film as "physiological cinema": “Indeed, why do processes of eating, tearing and copulation now and then appear on the screen, and why are they more meaningful and cinematographic than coughing, running nose, vomiting, micturition, defecation and ejaculation are?

The scenery for Golan's film was placed in the Ostankino pavilions [...] Soviet rubles turned into paper at that time.

The sets will be located in the pavilions, they will be untouched with all stage property (furniture, carpets, artificial flowers in vases, and so on).

[7]The main roles in the film were played by Nikita Vysotsky and American rock singer Joanna Stingray.

The newspaper "Kommersant" wrote about it:[8] "There is nothing more ridiculous than the struggle between good and evil", Kommersant newspaper, 02/06/1994“The Roman Kachanov's picture "The Freak", made according to an excellent script by Ivan Okhlobystin, distinctly differ from all this severe and serious series of film narrations about the struggle between good and evil.

[...] It was made as having been frightened by what is happening around you, but it was so easy and fun at the same time that we did not notice any trace of it in the end of the film” From 1993 to 1997, Kachanov shot advertisements and music videos.

The main roles in the film were played by Alexander Demidov (Kvartet I), Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikita Vysotsky, Yevgeny Dvorzhetsky, Ivan Okhlobystin and others.

In 2000, Kachanov made a film "Demobbed", which told stories of three young people who ended up in military service.

The official soundtrack also included songs by rock bands "Bakhyt-Kompot", "Time-Out", "Krematorij" and "Mango-Mango".

The film's soundtrack includes music by such bands and performers as Nike Borzov, DJ Groove, "Spring on Karl Johan Street", "NetSlov", "The knife for Frau Muller", and "Undervud".

In "Down House" a Polish actress Barbara Brylska played for the first time in the new Russian cinema after a long break.

However, then "Down House", as well as "Demobbed", was recognized as an iconic film and was also quoted many times and it became the base for numerous Internet memes again.

In 2002, Kachanov began to implement a huge film project called "Arie", the plot of which takes place in different times and countries.

The film was played by Pyotr Fedorov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Bogdan Stupka, Pavel Derevyanko, Igor Zolotovitsky, and others.

Several roles in the film were played by non-professional actors, but by sportsmen-boxers were Noel Andreson, Vitaly Kachanovsky and others.

Gosha Kutsenko, Renata Litvinova, Sergei Shnurov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alika Smekhova, Ivan Okhlobystin, Alexei Panin, Konstantin Murzenko, Anna Samokhina, Andrei Vasiliev, Artemy Troitsky, Olga Arntgolts, Andrei Fedortsov, Artur Vakha, and others played in the film.

Ivan Semyonov, Garik Sukachev, Artemy Troitsky, Nike Borzov, Zhanna Aguzarova, Anfisa Vistinghausen, Aleksandra Kiseleva, Varvara Komarova, Semyon Liseichev, Feliks Bondarev, Kuzma Kotrelev and others played in the film.