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

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee

Mariya Strelkova

Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee

Andrey Petrovsky

Governor - Anna na shee

Nikolay Shcherbakov

Anna's father - Anna na shee

Viktor Stanitsyn

Artynov - Anna na shee

Ivan Moskvin

Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika

Yevgeni Yershov

General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Policeman - Khameleon