Ranks and People

Oct 1, 1929

1h 5m

★ 5.4

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Mezhrabpomfilm

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Cast

Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee

Mariya Strelkova

Governor - Anna na shee

Andrey Petrovsky

Anna's father - Anna na shee

Nikolay Shcherbakov

Artynov - Anna na shee

Viktor Stanitsyn

Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika

Ivan Moskvin

General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika

Yevgeni Yershov

Policeman - Khameleon

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Khriukin - Khameleon

Vladimir Popov

Gossip - Anna na shee

Sofya Levitina

Modest's servant - Anna na shee

Yelena Maksimova

neighbor - Anna na shee

Varvara Rizenko

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