1915 - War & Peace (Voyna i Mir) - by Gardin & Protazanov

ВОЙНА И МИР - Voyna i Mir
War & Peace - Guerre & Paix
Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov

Vladimir Gardin Born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov January 18, 1877 Moscow, Russian Empire (now Russia) Died May 28, 1965 (aged 88) Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) Occupation Film director, screenwriter, actor Years active 1913 - 1965

Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema.
He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915).
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he organized and presided over the first film school in the world, now known as VGIK. With the advent of sound pictures, he stopped directing and returned to acting. His roles won him a high critical acclaim and the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Gardin published two volumes of memoirs in 1949 and 1952. Another book, The Artist's Life and Labor, followed in 1960.

Yakov Protazanov From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Яков Александрович Протазанов) Born January 23, 1881 Moscow, Russian Empire (now Russia) Died August 8, 1945 (aged 64) Moscow, USSR (now Russia) Occupation Film director, screenwriter Years active 1909-1943

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов) (January 23 (O.S. February 4), 1881 – August 8, 1945) was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia.
In the period from 1911 to 1918 he directed some 80 features, including The Queen of Spades (1916) and Father Sergius (1917), which have been acclaimed as his masterpieces. Ivan Mozhukhin starred in many of his early films.
After the Russian Revolution Protazanov resolved to stay in Europe but returned to USSR in 1923. The following year, he produced Aelita, arguably the first Soviet movie and the first film on space travel.
In 1928, he directed the White Eagle, with Vsevolod Meyerhold and Vasili Kachalov. The Three Million Trial (1926) and St. Jorgen's Day (1930) launched the film careers of two outstanding Soviet actors, Igor Ilyinsky and Mikhail Zharov.
His last acclaimed feature was a screen version of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play Without Dowry in 1937. Its cast featured many celebrated actors from the Maly Theatre.