Yakov Protazanov Movies

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

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

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

Based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky),...

Directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov, this two-part epic was the most expensive Russian film at the time and smashed box office records....

Smart Man Nassredin easily penetrates into Bukhara Emir inner circle posing as Wise Man from Damascus. He becomes Emir trusted advisor, and even...

Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speaking in court as a prosecutor, remains deaf to 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...

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.

Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan,...

Short film about Russian soldiers during World War I.

The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to...

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