Directing · b. 1881 · Moscow, Russian Empire

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).

Directed
Nasreddin in Bukhara 1943 Salavat Yulayev 1941 Seventh Graders 1938 Without Dowry 1937 On the Strangeness of Love 1936 Marionettes 1934 Siberian Patrol 1931 St. Jorgen's Day 1930 Ranks and People 1929 The White Eagle 1928 Don Diego and Pelagia 1928 The Man from the Restaurant 1927 The Forty-First 1927 The Three Million Trial 1926 The Tailor from Torzhok 1925 His Call 1925 Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924 Member Of Parliament 1923 Justice d'abord 1921 A Narrow Escape 1920 The Queen's Secret 1919 The Child of Another 1919 Woman's Calvary 1919 Knight's Spirit 1918 Father Sergius 1918 Jenny the Maid 1918 Little Ellie 1918 Satan Triumphant 1917 The Prosecutor 1917 Blood Need Not Be Spilled 1917 Dance of Death 1917 Beggar Woman 1916 And The Song Remained Unfinished 1916 I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses 1916 The Queen of Spades 1916 Panna Meri 1916 She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately 1916 Sin 1916 The Dagger Woman 1916 Petersburg Slums 1915 Me And My Conscience 1915 Nikolay Stavrogin 1915 Plebeian 1915 Sashka The Seminarian 1915 War and Peace 1915 Christmas in Trench Lines 1914 The Keys to Happiness 1913 Better Death than Dishonour 1913 Nailed 1913 For The Honor of the Russian Banner 1913 How the Child's Soul Cried 1913 How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses... 1913 The Broken Vase 1913 A Chopin Nocturne 1913 One Enjoyed, the Other Paid 1913 Musical Moment 1913 The Departure of a Great Old Man 1912 Song About the Prophetic Oleg 1912 Anfisa 1912 Convict's Song 1911 The Fountain of Bakhchisaray 1909
Acting
Chess Fever Chemist 1925 The Death of Ivan the Terrible Garaburda 1909
Other Credits
Diary of a Revolutionist Writer 1932 The Love of a Japanese Woman Co-Director 1913 The First Distiller Writer 1911 May Night, or the Drowned Maiden Writer 1910
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