Yakov Protazanov Movies

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him,...

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

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local...

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a...

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

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

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

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

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....

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

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.

After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid...

A musical number based on Schubert's music.

A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de...