Personal Info
Birth date
1881-02-04 (144 Years)
Day of death
1945-08-09
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Moscow, Russian Empire
Also known as
Яков Протазанов
I. A. Protozanoff
Yakov Protazanov
Biography
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; February 4 (O.S. January 23), 1881 – August 8, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944).
Filmography
Aelita: Queen of Mars
5.9
Overview:
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.The White Eagle
4.9
Overview:
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.Chess Fever
6.3
Overview:
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.Nasreddin in Bukhara
4.9
Overview:
Smart Man Nassredin easily penetrates into Bukhara Emir inner circle posing as Wise Man from Damascus. He becomes Emir trusted advisor, and even convinces the tyrant to relax the rule and release a lot of political prisoners (because stars favor this arrangement).The Man from the Restaurant
5
Overview:
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....Father Sergius
5.556
Overview:
The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.Satan Triumphant
6.8
Overview:
Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.Marionettes
4.2
Overview:
The Soviet Union wants more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard, because they don't have enough power over the current king.The Tailor from Torzhok
3.5
Overview:
A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.The Case of the Three Million
5.7
Overview:
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 religious community.War and Peace
NYR
Overview:
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.Knight's Spirit
5.8
Overview:
A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.St. Jorgen's Day
5.3
Overview:
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 men try to pass of a resurrected saint.Diary of a Revolutionist
2.7
Overview:
The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an agent and turns his wife to police.The Queen of Spades
5.3
Overview:
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 incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.The Prosecutor
NYR
Overview:
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 dictates of feelings, a ruthless servant of the harsh Law. Some time later, Betsy kills her new lover in a fit of jealousy; Olsen, who retained his feelings, nevertheless becomes her accuser at the trial. He seeks the condemnation of Betsy, but comes to the realization that he lived unrighteously, allowing himself to be judged, becoming a servant of Themis. Exit in the classic tradition of the great mute: Olsen commits suicide.The Keys to Happiness
NYR
Overview:
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. It is now considered lost, with only a 4 minute clip surviving.The Dagger Woman
NYR
Overview:
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 in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.Without Dowry
5.8
Overview:
Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowrySalavat Yulayev
NYR
Overview:
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.Don Diego and Pelagia
4
Overview:
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 local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.The Departure of a Great Old Man
4.7
Overview:
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 has authority over their land-holdings, and she will not help them. Stung by their negative reaction to him, Tolstoy becomes increasingly preoccupied with the problems of the poor. This leads to a number of conflicts with his wife, and then to a deep despondency, as the noted writer continues vainly to search for answers to the sufferings he sees around him.Acting
1927The Man from the Restaurant as Unknown
1925Chess Fever as Chemist
1913Musical Moment as Unknown
1912Song About the Prophetic Oleg as The wizard
1909The Death of Ivan the Terrible as Garaburda
Directing
1943Nasreddin in Bukhara ... Director
1941Salavat Yulayev ... Director
1937Without Dowry ... Director
1936On the Strangeness of Love ... Director
1934Marionettes ... Director
1931Siberian Patrol ... Director
1930St. Jorgen's Day ... Director
1929Ranks and People ... Director
1928The White Eagle ... Director
1928Don Diego and Pelagia ... Director
1927The Man from the Restaurant ... Director
1927The Forty-First ... Director
1926The Case of the Three Million ... Director
1925The Tailor from Torzhok ... Director
1925His Call ... Director
1924Aelita: Queen of Mars ... Director
1923Member Of Parliament ... Director
1921Justice d'abord ... Director
1920A Narrow Escape ... Director
1919Woman's Calvary ... Director
1919The Child of Another ... Director
1919The Queen's Secret ... Director
1918Father Sergius ... Director
1918Knight's Spirit ... Director
1918Jenny the Maid ... Director
1918Little Ellie ... Director
1917Satan Triumphant ... Director
1917Blood Need Not Be Spilled ... Director
1917The Prosecutor ... Director
1917Dance of Death ... Director
1916Beggar Woman ... Director
1916Panna Meri ... Director
1916Sin ... Director
1916She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately ... Director
1916And The Song Remained Unfinished ... Director
1916The Dagger Woman ... Director
1916The Queen of Spades ... Director
1916I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses ... Director
1915Me And My Conscience ... Director
1915Nikolay Stavrogin ... Director
1915Plebeian ... Director
1915War and Peace ... Director
1915Petersburg Slums ... Director
1915Sashka The Seminarian ... Director
1914Christmas in Trench Lines ... Director
1913One Enjoyed, the Other Paid ... Director
1913How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses... ... Director
1913The Broken Vase ... Director
1913Better Death than Dishonour ... Director
1913The Love of a Japanese Woman ... Co-Director
1913Musical Moment ... Director
1913How the Child's Soul Cried ... Director
1913For The Honor of the Russian Banner ... Director
1913Nailed ... Director
1913The Keys to Happiness ... Director
1913A Chopin Nocturne ... Director
1912The Departure of a Great Old Man ... Director
1912Anfisa ... Director
1912Song About the Prophetic Oleg ... Director
1911Convict's Song ... Director
1909The Fountain of Bakhchisaray ... Director
Writing
1937Without Dowry ... Screenplay
1934Marionettes ... Writer
1932Diary of a Revolutionist ... Writer
1931Siberian Patrol ... Screenplay
1930St. Jorgen's Day ... Screenplay
1929Ranks and People ... Writer
1928The White Eagle ... Writer
1927The Man from the Restaurant ... Screenplay
1926The Case of the Three Million ... Screenplay
1920A Narrow Escape ... Screenplay
1919The Queen's Secret ... Writer
1918Jenny the Maid ... Writer
1918Little Ellie ... Writer
1917Blood Need Not Be Spilled ... Writer
1916Beggar Woman ... Writer
1916Panna Meri ... Screenplay
1916The Queen of Spades ... Writer
1915Plebeian ... Writer
1915War and Peace ... Writer
1915Sashka The Seminarian ... Writer
1914Christmas in Trench Lines ... Screenplay
1913How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses... ... Screenplay
1913The Broken Vase ... Screenplay
1913How the Child's Soul Cried ... Screenplay
1913For The Honor of the Russian Banner ... Writer
1913Nailed ... Writer
1912Song About the Prophetic Oleg ... Screenplay
1911Convict's Song ... Screenplay
1911The First Distiller ... Writer
1910May Night, or the Drowned Maiden ... Writer
1909The Fountain of Bakhchisaray ... Writer