Movielogr
Ranks and People (1929)
Directed by Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Doller
Overview
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
Actors
Mikhail Tarkhanov | Mariya Strelkova | Andrey Petrovsky | Nikolay Shcherbakov | Viktor Stanitsyn | Ivan Moskvin | Yevgeni Yershov | Daniil Vvedenskiy | Vladimir Popov | Sofya Levitina | Yelena Maksimova | Varvara Rizenko | Serguei Sideliov | Mariya Shlenskaya