Yakov Protazanov Movies

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.

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

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...

Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry

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...

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...

A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

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

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...

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...

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a...

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an...

Directed by Yakov Protazanov.

A group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who...