Yakov Protazanov(1881-1945)

Director
Writer
Actor

Yakov Protazanov was born on 4 February 1881 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for A Narrow Escape (1920), Without Dowry (1937) and Kak khoroshi, kak svezhi byli rozy (1913). He died on 9 August 1945 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

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A Narrow Escape

6.8

Director(as Jacob Protozanoff)

1920

Without Dowry

6.9

Director

1937

Kak khoroshi, kak svezhi byli rozy

Director

1913

Aelita, the Queen of Mars

6.4

Director

1924

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Adventures in Bokhara
- Director (as Ya. Protazanov, directed by)
- 1943
Salavat Yulayev
- Director
- 1940
Semiklassniki
- Director
- 1938
Without Dowry
- Director
- 1937
O strannostyakh lyubvi
- Director
- 1936
Marionettes
- Director
- 1934
Tommi
- Director
- 1931
Holiday of St. Jorgen
- Director (as Ya.A. Protazanov)
- 1930
An Hour with Chekhov
- Director
- 1929
The White Eagle
- Director
- 1928
Don Diego i Pelageya
- Director (as Ya. A. Protazanov)
- 1928
Man from the Restaurant
- Director
- 1927
Sorok pervyy
- Director
- 1927
Three Thieves
- Director
- 1926
Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka
- Director
- 1925

Writer

Adventures in Bokhara
- screenplay (uncredited)
- 1943
Without Dowry
- screenplay
- 1937
Marionettes
- Writer
- 1934
Diary of a Revolutionist
- Writer (as J.A. Protozanov)
- 1932
Tommi
- Writer
- 1931
Holiday of St. Jorgen
- screenplay (as Ya. Protazanov)
- 1930
An Hour with Chekhov
- writer
- 1929
The White Eagle
- writer
- 1928
Man from the Restaurant
- scenario
- 1927
Three Thieves
- Writer
- 1926
L'ombre du péché
- Writer
- 1923
Le sens de la mort
- Writer
- 1922
A Narrow Escape
- screenplay
- story (as Jacob Protozanoff)
- 1920
Chernaya staya
- Writer
- 1919
Tayna korolevy
- writer
- 1919

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- Jakov Protazanov
- February 4, 1881
- Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- August 9, 1945
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia](undisclosed)
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Russian director from 1911, former actor. Fled Russia during the post-Revolution civil war and worked for a time in France. Returned in 1924 to direct his most famous film, the pioneering science fiction Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924). Unlike many of his peers, he had a fondness for lighter subjects, from romantic melodramas to Oriental escapism, such as Adventures in Bokhara (1943).

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