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.
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Mariya Strelkova
Andrey Petrovsky
Nikolay Shcherbakov
Viktor Stanitsyn
Ivan Moskvin
Yevgeni Yershov
Daniil Vvedenskiy
Vladimir Popov
Sofya Levitina
Yelena Maksimova
Varvara Rizenko
Serguei Sideliov
Mariya Shlenskaya