Yakov Protazanov Movies

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

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

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.

Based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.

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

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him,...

A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.

A group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who...

The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of con...

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.