Yakov Protazanov Movies

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as...

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.

Short film about Russian soldiers during World War I.

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

An adaptation of the Tolstoy novel.

During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy...

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local...

A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.

At a Crimean resort two friends try to pick up girls.

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him,...

A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.