Yakov Protazanov Movies

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

Based on Aleksey Tolstoy's piece of the same name.

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an...

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle...

A musical number based on Schubert's music.

Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred...

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

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

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it,...