Movies: Yakov Protazanov
- 1924
Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
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A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope....
- 1925
Chess Fever (1925)
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A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess....
- 1943
Nasreddin in Bukhara (1943)
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Smart Man Nassredin easily penetrates into Bukhara Emir inner circle posing as Wise Man from Damascus. He becomes Emir trusted advisor, and even convinces the tyrant to relax the rule and release a lot of political prisoners (because stars favor this...
- 1918
Father Sergius (1918)
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The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk....
- 1916
The Queen of Spades (1916)
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While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she...
- 1925
The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)
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A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry ...
- 1934
Marionettes (1934)
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The Soviet Union wants more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard, because they don't have enough power over the current king....
- 1937
Without Dowry (1937)
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Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry...
- 1927
The Man from the Restaurant (1927)
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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 restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged ...
- 1931
Siberian Patrol (1931)
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The story of a British POW who converts to communism....
- 1930
St. Jorgen's Day (1930)
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The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of con men try to pass of a resurrected saint....
- 1928
The White Eagle (1928)
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The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the go...
- 1925
His Call (1925)
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The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The...
- 1929
Ranks and People (1929)
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From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov...
- 1915
War and Peace (1915)
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An adaptation of the Tolstoy novel....
- 1941
Salavat Yulayev (1941)
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A film about the national hero of the Bashkir people Salavat Yulaev, the leader of the Bashkirs in the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev....
- 1927
The Forty-First (1927)
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A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island....
- 1932
Diary of a Revolutionist (1932)
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The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an agent and turns his wife to police....
- 1916
Zhenshchina s kinzhalom (1916)
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Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully pl...
- 1928
Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)
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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 party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red ta...