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, “Anna On The Neck”, “Death Of A Petty Official” and “Chameleon” were assembled for the silent screen.
Length 65 minutes
Vladimir Popov | Mariya Strelkova | Viktor Stanitsyn | Yelena Maksimova | Mikhail Tarkhanov | Nikolay Shcherbakov | Andrey Petrovsky | Ivan Moskvin | Yevgeni Yershov | Daniil Vvedenskiy | Sofya Levitina | Varvara Rizenko | Serguei Sideliov | Mariya Shlenskaya