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.
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Mikhail Tarkhanov as Modest Alekseich - Anna na shee
Mariya Strelkova as Anna Petrovna - Anna na shee
Andrey Petrovsky as Governor - Anna na shee
Nikolay Shcherbakov as Anna's father - Anna na shee
Viktor Stanitsyn as Artynov - Anna na shee
Ivan Moskvin as Cherviakov, the bureaucrat - Smert' chinovnika
Yevgeni Yershov as General Brizzhalov - Smert' chinovnika
Daniil Vvedenskiy as Policeman - Khameleon
Vladimir Popov as Khriukin - Khameleon
Sofya Levitina as Gossip - Anna na shee
Yelena Maksimova as Modest's servant - Anna na shee
Varvara Rizenko as neighbor - Anna na shee
Serguei Sideliov as student - Anna na shee
Mariya Shlenskaya as Gossip
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