Yakov Protazanov

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St. Jorgen’s Day
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St. Jorgen’s Day

Aug. 25, 1930

St. Jorgen’s Day

Satire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who’ve come to see relics of ...
Nasreddin in Bukhara
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Nasreddin in Bukhara

Jun. 06, 1943

Nasreddin in Bukhara

Nasreddin, the Robin Hood of the East! Those who read the Leonid Solovyov’s brilliant book “Povest’ of Hodzhe Nasreddine” ...
Without Dowry
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Without Dowry

Apr. 01, 1937

Without Dowry

Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother’s wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry Release: ...
Satan Triumphant
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Satan Triumphant

Oct. 21, 1917

Satan Triumphant

Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing ...
Father Sergius
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Father Sergius

May. 14, 1918

Father Sergius

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk. Release: Father Sergius 1918 ...
Don Diego and Pelagia
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Don Diego and Pelagia

Apr. 29, 1928

Don Diego and Pelagia

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The ...
The Case of the Three Million
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The Case of the Three Million

Who is a thief – a street pickpocket, a social lion or a banker? The thief is the one who takes it small, the man with prospects is called ...
The Man from the Restaurant
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The Man from the Restaurant

An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He’s content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. But ...
The Departure of a Great Old Man
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The Departure of a Great Old Man

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 ...
Marionettes
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Marionettes

Feb. 02, 1934

Marionettes

Political pamphlet, ridiculing fascists ready to fly to the arms against Soviet Union. The owners of the capitalist world are frightened by ...
Jenny the Maid
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Jenny the Maid

Feb. 24, 1918

Jenny the Maid

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 ...
Spirit of the Knight
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Spirit of the Knight

Oct. 12, 1918

Spirit of the Knight

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand. Release: Bogatyr dukha 1918 tt0953324 General: mkv | 457 MB | ...
The White Eagle
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The White Eagle

Oct. 09, 1928

The White Eagle

“Not to spare bullets!” was the highest command to a governor in case of a workers’ revolt. Desperate time – desperate ...
The Forty-First
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The Forty-First

Apr. 01, 1927

The Forty-First

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

Oct. 01, 1929

Ranks and People

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian ...
The Queen of Spades
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The Queen of Spades

Apr. 01, 1916

The Queen of Spades

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once ...