Ranks and People
1929From 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.
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Mikhail Tarkhanov
as Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee
Mariya Strelkova
as Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee
Andrey Petrovsky
as Governor - Anna na shee
Nikolay Shcherbakov
as Anna's father - Anna na shee
Viktor Stanitsyn
as Artynov - Anna na shee
Ivan Moskvin
as Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
Yevgeni Yershov
as General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
Daniil Vvedenskiy
as Policeman - Khameleon
Vladimir Popov
as Khriukin - Khameleon
Sofya Levitina
as Gossip - Anna na shee
Yelena Maksimova
as Modest's servant - Anna na shee
Varvara Rizenko
as neighbor - Anna na shee
Serguei Sideliov
as student - Anna na shee
Mariya Shlenskaya
as Gossip