Yakov Protazanov

Biography

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; February 4 (O.S. January 23), 1881 – August 8, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944).

Known For

Acting

1925

Chess Fever

as

Chemist

1912

Song About the Prophetic Oleg

as

The wizard

1909

The Death of Ivan the Terrible

as

Garaburda

1913

Musical Moment

as

1927

The Man from the Restaurant

as

Production

Crew

Directing

1941

Salavat Yulayev

as

1924

Aelita: Queen of Mars

as

1928

The White Eagle

as

1928

Don Diego and Pelagia

as

1926

The Case of the Three Million

as

1920

A Narrow Escape

as

1927

The Man from the Restaurant

as

1930

St. Jorgen's Day

as

1912

The Departure of a Great Old Man

as

1917

Satan Triumphant

as

1925

The Tailor from Torzhok

as

1934

Marionettes

as

1918

Knight's Spirit

as

1918

Father Sergius

as

1943

Nasreddin in Bukhara

as

1918

Jenny the Maid

as

1931

Siberian Patrol

as

1916

Beggar Woman

as

1927

The Forty-First

as

1937

Without Dowry

as

1913

The Keys to Happiness

as

1921

Justice d'abord

as

1915

Petersburg Slums

as

1917

The Prosecutor

as

1929

Ranks and People

as

1925

His Call

as

1916

And The Song Remained Unfinished

as

1915

Nikolay Stavrogin

as

1916

I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses

as

1915

Me And My Conscience

as

1919

The Queen's Secret

as

1913

Better Death than Dishonour

as

1913

The Love of a Japanese Woman

as

1936

On the Strangeness of Love

as

1916

The Queen of Spades

as

1916

Panna Meri

as

1911

Convict's Song

as

1913

The Broken Vase

as

1913

How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses...

as

1913

For The Honor of the Russian Banner

as

1913

Nailed

as

1912

Song About the Prophetic Oleg

as

1913

How the Child's Soul Cried

as

1916

She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately

as

1916

Sin

as

1923

Member Of Parliament

as

1915

Plebeian

as

1917

Blood Need Not Be Spilled

as

1918

Little Ellie

as

1919

The Child of Another

as

1912

Anfisa

as

1913

A Chopin Nocturne

as

1913

One Enjoyed, the Other Paid

as

1914

Christmas in Trench Lines

as

1919

Woman's Calvary

as

1916

The Dagger Woman

as

1913

Musical Moment

as

1909

The Fountain of Bakhchisaray

as

1915

Sashka The Seminarian

as

1917

Dance of Death

as

1915

War and Peace

as

1938

Seventh Graders

as