
Also known as: I. A. Protozanoff, Я. Протазанов, Яков Александрович Протазанов, Я. А. Протазанов
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; February 4 (O.S. January 23), 1881 – August 8, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944).
Directing
February 4, 1881
August 9, 1945
64 years old
Moscow, Russian Empire
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Nasreddin in Bukhara
Director

Salavat Yulayev
Director

Seventh Graders
Director

Without Dowry
Director

Without Dowry
Screenplay

On the Strangeness of Love
Director

Marionettes
Director

Marionettes
Writer

Diary of a Revolutionist
Writer

Siberian Patrol
Director

Siberian Patrol
Screenplay

St. Jorgen's Day
Director

St. Jorgen's Day
Screenplay

Ranks and People
Director

Ranks and People
Writer

The White Eagle
Director

Don Diego and Pelagia
Director

The White Eagle
Writer

The Man from the Restaurant

The Man from the Restaurant
Director

The Forty-First
Director

The Man from the Restaurant
Screenplay

The Three Million Trial
Director

The Three Million Trial
Screenplay

Chess Fever
Chemist

The Tailor from Torzhok
Director

His Call
Director

Aelita: Queen of Mars
Director
Member Of Parliament
Director

Justice d'abord
Director

A Narrow Escape
Director

A Narrow Escape
Screenplay

The Queen's Secret
Director

The Queen's Secret
Writer

The Child of Another
Director

Woman's Calvary
Director

A Knight of the Spirit
Director

Father Sergius
Director

Jenny the Maid
Director

Little Ellie
Director

Little Ellie
Writer

Jenny the Maid
Writer

Satan Triumphant
Director

The Prosecutor
Director
Blood Need Not Be Spilled
Director
Blood Need Not Be Spilled
Writer

Dance of Death
Director

The Beggar Woman
Director

And The Song Remained Unfinished
Director

I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses
Director

The Queen of Spades
Director

Panna Meri
Director

Panna Meri
Screenplay

She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately
Director

The Queen of Spades
Writer

Sin
Director

The Beggar Woman
Writer

The Dagger Woman
Director

Petersburg Slums
Director

Nikolay Stavrogin
Director

Me And My Conscience
Director
Plebeian
Director
Plebeian
Writer

War and Peace
Writer

Sashka The Seminarian
Director

Sashka The Seminarian
Writer

War and Peace
Director

Christmas in Trench Lines
Screenplay

Christmas in Trench Lines
Director

Musical Moment

The Keys to Happiness
Director
Better Death than Dishonour
Director

The Love of a Japanese Woman
Co-Director

How the Child's Soul Cried
Screenplay

The Broken Vase
Director

The Broken Vase
Screenplay

How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses...
Director
For The Honor of the Russian Banner
Director

How Beautiful And Fresh Were The Roses...
Screenplay

Nailed
Director

How the Child's Soul Cried
Director
A Chopin Nocturne
Director

One Enjoyed, the Other Paid
Director

Musical Moment
Director
For The Honor of the Russian Banner
Writer

Nailed
Writer
What the Violin Wept About
Director
Song About the Prophetic Oleg
The wizard

The Departure of a Great Old Man
Director
Song About the Prophetic Oleg
Screenplay
Song About the Prophetic Oleg
Director
Anfisa
Director

Convict's Song
Director

Convict's Song
Screenplay
The First Distiller
Writer
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
Director
May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
Writer
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
Writer

The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Garaburda