Comedy
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.
Directed by
Mikhail Doller, Yakov Protazanov
Written by
Yakov Protazanov, Oleg Leonidov
Vladimir Popov
Khriukin - Khameleon
Yelena Maksimova
Modest's servant - Anna na shee
Viktor Stanitsyn
Artynov - Anna na shee
Sofya Levitina
Gossip - Anna na shee
Mariya Strelkova
Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee
Ivan Moskvin
Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
Andrey Petrovsky
Governor - Anna na shee
Yevgeni Yershov
General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
Daniil Vvedenskiy
Policeman - Khameleon
Varvara Rizenko
neighbor - Anna na shee
Mariya Shlenskaya
Gossip

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