Yakov Protazanov Movies

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....

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a...

Directed by Yakov Protazanov.

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

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

At a Crimean resort two friends try to pick up girls.

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.

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...

Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speaking in court as a prosecutor, remains deaf to the...

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...

Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees...