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

1. Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) — Director
2. Father Sergius (1918) — Director
3. The Queen of Spades (1916) — Director
4. The Forty-First (1927) — Director
5. St. Jorgen's Day (1930) — Director
6. The Man from the Restaurant (1927) — Director
7. The White Eagle (1928) — Director
8. Satan Triumphant (1917) — Director
9. Without Dowry (1937) — Director
10. Nasreddin in Bukhara (1943) — Director
11. Ranks and People (1929) — Director
12. Marionettes (1934) — Director
13. The Three Million Trial (1926) — Director
14. Don Diego and Pelagia (1928) — Director
15. The Tailor from Torzhok (1925) — Director
16. Knight's Spirit (1918) — Director
17. The Departure of a Great Old Man (1912) — Director
18. A Narrow Escape (1920) — Director
19. On the Strangeness of Love (1936) — Director
20. Beggar Woman (1916) — Director
21. Member Of Parliament (1923) — Director
22. Siberian Patrol (1931) — Director
23. Jenny the Maid (1918) — Director
24. Musical Moment (1913) — Director
25. Salavat Yulayev (1941) — Director
26. Justice d'abord (1921) — Director
27. His Call (1925) — Director
28. The Queen's Secret (1919) — Director
29. Sin (1916) — Director
30. Blood Need Not Be Spilled (1917) — Director
31. Christmas in Trench Lines (1914) — Director
32. The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1909) — Director
33. The Keys to Happiness (1913) — Director
34. Petersburg Slums (1915) — Director
35. The Prosecutor (1917) — Director
36. And The Song Remained Unfinished (1916) — Director
37. I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses (1916) — Director
38. Me And My Conscience (1915) — Director
39. Nikolay Stavrogin (1915) — Director
40. Better Death than Dishonour (1913) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Chess Fever (1925) — Chemist
2. The Man from the Restaurant (1927)
3. The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1909) — Garaburda
4. Musical Moment (1913)
5. Song About the Prophetic Oleg (1912) — The wizard