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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, Mariya Strelkova, Andrey Petrovsky, Nikolay Shcherbakov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Ivan Moskvin, Yevgeni Yershov, Daniil Vvedenskiy, Vladimir Popov, Sofya Levitina, Elena Maksimova, Varvara Rizenko
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