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.

• Yakov ProtazanovDirector
• Mikhail DollerDirector
• Oleg LeonidovWriter
• Yakov ProtazanovWriter

• Mikhail TarkhanovModest Alekseich - Anna na shee
• Mariya StrelkovaAnna Petrovna - Anna na shee
• Andrey PetrovskyGovernor - Anna na shee
• Nikolay ShcherbakovAnna's father - Anna na shee
• Viktor StanitsynArtynov - Anna na shee
• Ivan MoskvinCherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
• Yevgeni YershovGeneral Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
• Daniil VvedenskiyPoliceman - Khameleon
• Vladimir PopovKhriukin - Khameleon
• Sofya LevitinaGossip - Anna na shee
• Elena MaksimovaModest's servant - Anna na shee
• Varvara Rizenkoneighbor - Anna na shee