
Ranks and People
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.
Cast
Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee
Mikhail TarkhanovAnna Petrovna - Anna na shee
Mariya StrelkovaGovernor - Anna na shee
Andrey PetrovskyAnna's father - Anna na shee
Nikolay ShcherbakovArtynov - Anna na shee
Viktor StanitsynCherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
Ivan MoskvinGeneral Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
Yevgeni YershovPoliceman - Khameleon
Daniil VvedenskiyKhriukin - Khameleon
Vladimir PopovGossip - Anna na shee
Sofya Levitina
Mikhail TarkhanovAnna Petrovna - Anna na shee
Mariya StrelkovaGovernor - Anna na shee
Andrey PetrovskyAnna's father - Anna na shee
Nikolay ShcherbakovArtynov - Anna na shee
Viktor StanitsynCherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
Ivan MoskvinGeneral Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
Yevgeni YershovPoliceman - Khameleon
Daniil VvedenskiyKhriukin - Khameleon
Vladimir PopovGossip - Anna na shee
Sofya Levitina