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Yakov Protazanov(1881-1945)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Actor
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Yakov Protazanov
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].
BornFebruary 4, 1881
DiedAugust 9, 1945(64)
BornFebruary 4, 1881
DiedAugust 9, 1945(64)
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Known for

A Narrow Escape (1920)
A Narrow Escape
6.7
  • Director(as Jacob Protozanoff)
  • 1920
Grigory Rychkov and Lidiya Stenberg in Without Dowry (1937)
Without Dowry
6.9
  • Director
  • 1937
Kak khoroshi, kak svezhi byli rozy
  • Director
  • 1913
Izrail Bograd in Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Aelita, the Queen of Mars
6.4
  • Director
  • 1924

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Director

  • Adventures in Bokhara (1943)
    Adventures in Bokhara
    • (as Ya. Protazanov, directed by)
  • Salavat Yulayev (1941)
    Salavat Yulayev
  • Semiklassniki (1938)
    Semiklassniki
  • Grigory Rychkov and Lidiya Stenberg in Without Dowry (1937)
    Without Dowry
  • Nina Alisova and Yekaterina Borisova in O strannostyakh lyubvi (1936)
    O strannostyakh lyubvi
  • Anatoli Ktorov in Marionettes (1934)
    Marionettes
  • Tommi (1931)
    Tommi
  • Igor Ilyinsky and Isaak Rabichev in Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930)
    Holiday of St. Jorgen
    • (as Ya.A. Protazanov)
  • Nikolay Prusakov in An Hour with Chekhov (1929)
    An Hour with Chekhov
  • Anna Sten and Izrail Bograd in The White Eagle (1928)
    The White Eagle
  • Semyon Semyonov in Don Diego i Pelageya (1928)
    Don Diego i Pelageya
    • (as Ya. A. Protazanov)
  • Man from the Restaurant (1927)
    Man from the Restaurant
  • Sorok pervyy (1927)
    Sorok pervyy
  • Three Thieves (1926)
    Three Thieves
  • Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka (1925)
    Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka

Writer

  • Adventures in Bokhara (1943)
    Adventures in Bokhara
    • (uncredited)
  • Grigory Rychkov and Lidiya Stenberg in Without Dowry (1937)
    Without Dowry
  • Anatoli Ktorov in Marionettes (1934)
    Marionettes
  • Fyodor Blazhevich, Sofiya Magarill, and Georgiy Muzalevskiy in Diary of a Revolutionist (1932)
    Diary of a Revolutionist
    • (as J.A. Protozanov)
  • Tommi (1931)
    Tommi
  • Igor Ilyinsky and Isaak Rabichev in Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930)
    Holiday of St. Jorgen
    • (as Ya. Protazanov)
  • Nikolay Prusakov in An Hour with Chekhov (1929)
    An Hour with Chekhov
  • Anna Sten and Izrail Bograd in The White Eagle (1928)
    The White Eagle
  • Man from the Restaurant (1927)
    Man from the Restaurant
  • Three Thieves (1926)
    Three Thieves
  • L'ombre du péché
  • Le sens de la mort
  • A Narrow Escape (1920)
    A Narrow Escape
    • (as Jacob Protozanoff)
  • Chernaya staya
  • Tayna korolevy

Actor

  • Man from the Restaurant (1927)
    Man from the Restaurant
  • José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, and Anna Zemtsova in Shakhmatnaya goryachka (1925)
    Shakhmatnaya goryachka
  • Rogneda
  • The Convict's Song (1911)
    The Convict's Song
  • Smert Ioanna Groznogo (1909)
    Smert Ioanna Groznogo

Personal details

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    • 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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