FILM DIRECTOR

Yakov Protazanov

1881 - 1945

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Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February (O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Protazanov is the 567th most popular film director (up from 595th in 2019), the 1,002nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,123rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yakov Protazanov ranks 567 out of 2,041. Before him are James Mangold, Marcel L'Herbier, Uli Edel, Michael Ritchie, Sergei Yutkevich, and Rob Cohen. After him are Georges Lautner, Henry Koster, Charles Barton, Grigori Kozintsev, David Chase, and Giovanni Pastrone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Yakov Protazanov ranks 112. Before him are Ernest Bevin, Jacob Israël de Haan, Heinrich Barkhausen, William Clothier, Grigory Kotovsky, and María Blanchard. After him are Ber Borochov, Albert Austin, Nuri Killigil, Felix von Luckner, Giuseppe Amisani, and August Hlond. Among people deceased in 1945, Yakov Protazanov ranks 206. Before him are Ada Negri, Naoemon Shimizu, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Rash Behari Bose, John Basilone, and Hans von Dohnanyi. After him are Wincenty Witos, Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Roberto Farinacci, Agnes Baden-Powell, Alfred Delp, and Nikolai Tcherepnin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yakov Protazanov ranks 1,002 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942), Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Yusuf Akçura (1876), and Kondraty Ryleyev (1795). After him are Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Leah Goldberg (1911), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Zinaida Greceanîi (1956), and Alexander Zinoviev (1922).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Yakov Protazanov ranks 16. Before him are Alexander Sokurov (1951), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Mikhail Romm (1901), and Sergei Yutkevich (1904). After him are Boris Barnet (1902), Yuri Norstein (1941), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), and Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964).

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