Yakov Protazanov Movies

Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov.

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...

A film about the national hero of the Bashkir people Salavat Yulaev, the leader of the Bashkirs in the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev.

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.

A musical number based on Schubert's music.

An adaptation of the Tolstoy novel.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...