Bespridannitsa : Médaille d'or à l'Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 1937
Biography
A native of Moscow, he entered films as an actor in 1905, and became a director four years later, making over 40 features between then and 1917. In the early 20s, Protazanov worked for a while in France but returned to USSR in 1923. In 1924, he made the first Soviet sci-fi film, Aelita.