Ranks and People

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.

Cast

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Mikhail Tarkhanov

as Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee

Mariya Strelkova

Mariya Strelkova

as Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee

Andrey Petrovsky

Andrey Petrovsky

as Governor - Anna na shee

Nikolay Shcherbakov

Nikolay Shcherbakov

as Anna's father - Anna na shee

Viktor Stanitsyn

Viktor Stanitsyn

as Artynov - Anna na shee

Ivan Moskvin

Ivan Moskvin

as Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika

Yevgeni Yershov

Yevgeni Yershov

as General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Daniil Vvedenskiy

as Policeman - Khameleon

Vladimir Popov

Vladimir Popov

as Khriukin - Khameleon

Sofya Levitina

Sofya Levitina

as Gossip - Anna na shee

Reviews

Similar Movies