Ranks and People (1929)
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.
Ranks and PeopleComedy
Cast
- Mikhail Tarkhanov — Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee
- Mariya Strelkova — Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee
- Andrey Petrovsky — Governor - Anna na shee
- Nikolay Shcherbakov — Anna's father - Anna na shee
- Viktor Stanitsyn — Artynov - Anna na shee
- Ivan Moskvin — Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
- Yevgeni Yershov — General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
- Daniil Vvedenskiy — Policeman - Khameleon
- Vladimir Popov — Khriukin - Khameleon
- Sofya Levitina — Gossip - Anna na shee
- Elena Maksimova — Modest's servant - Anna na shee
- Varvara Rizenko — neighbor - Anna na shee
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