Yakov Protazanov Movies

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

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....

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...

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees...

The Kostomarov family falls apart when a female relative joins the household.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov.

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

Short film about Russian soldiers during World War I.

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

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

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

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.

A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.