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.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova, Andrey Petrovsky, Nikolay Shcherbakov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Ivan Moskvin, Yevgeni Yershov, Daniil Vvedenskiy, Vladimir Popov, Sofya Levitina, Yelena Maksimova, Varvara Rizenko, Serguei Sideliov
Crew: Yakov Protazanov (Director), Mikhail Doller (Director), Anton Chekhov (Story), Oleg Leonidov (Writer), Yakov Protazanov (Writer)