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Filmmaker · Russia

Yakov Protazanov

Died in 1945

Yakov Protazanov (1881-1945), born in Moscow into a merchant family, finished commercial school in 1900 and shortly afterwards joined a Moscow film company. A director from 1911, he made about eighty films before 1920, mostly literary adaptations. After the revolution, he worked in Europe, then returned to Moscow in 1923, where he made comedies among other films. He died in Moscow on 8 August 1945.

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