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Ivan Mosjoukine

Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor, writer and director. Born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), Ivan Mozzhukhin was the youngest of four brothers. His mother Rachel Ivanovna Mozzhukhina (née Lastochkina) was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, while his father Ilya Ivanovich Mozzhukhin came from peasants and served as an estate manager for the noble Obolensky family. While all three elder brothers finished seminary, Ivan was sent to the Penza gymnasium for boys and later studied law at the Moscow State University. In 1910, he left academic life to join a troupe of traveling actors from Kiev, with which he toured for a year, gaining experience and a reputation for dynamic stage presence. Upon returning to Moscow, he launched his screen career with the 1911 adaptation of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Mosjoukine's most lasting contribution to the theoretical concept of film as image is the legacy of his own face in recurring representation of illusory reactions seen in Lev Kuleshov's psychological montage experiment which demonstrated the Kuleshov Effect. In 1918, the first full year of the Russian Revolution, Kuleshov assembled his revolutionary illustration of the application of the principles of film editing out of footage from one of Mosjoukine's Tsarist-era films which had been left behind when he, along with his entire film production company, departed for the relative safety of Crimea in 1917. At the end of 1919, Mosjoukine arrived in Paris and quickly established himself as one of the top stars of the French silent cinema, starring in one successful film after another. Handsome, tall, and possessing a powerful screen presence, he won a considerable following as a mysterious and exotic romantic figure. Mosjoukine's film stardom was assured and during the 1920s, his face with the trademark hypnotic stare appeared on covers of film magazines all over Europe. He wrote the screenplays for most of his starring vehicles and directed two of them, L'Enfant du carnaval (Child of the Carnival), released on 29 August 1921 and Le Brasier ardent (The Blazing Inferno), released on 2 November 1923. The leading lady in both films was the then-"Madame Mosjoukine", Nathalie Lissenko. Brasier, in particular, was highly praised for its innovative and inventive concepts, but ultimately proved too surreal and bizarre to become financially successful. Ivan Mosjoukine died of tuberculosis in a Neuilly-sur-Seine clinic. All available sources give his age as 49 and year of birth as 1889. However, his gravestone at the Russian cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois is inscribed with the year 1887.


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Born:
Sep 26, 1889 In Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Movie/TV Credits:
72
First Appeared:
In the movie At Midnight in the Graveyard 1910-02-12
Latest Project:
Movie Cinema in Russia 1979-08-27
Known For
Poster of Petersburg Slums
Poster of Do You Remember?..
Poster of Sorrows of Sarah
Poster of Na boykom meste
Filmography
Movie Cinema in Russia Film footage 1979-08-27
Movie Nitchevo 1936-12-18
Movie Casanova 1934-04-13
Movie L'enfant du carnaval 1934-04-26
Movie The 1002nd Night Tahar 1933-05-19
Movie Sergeant X Jean Renault 1932-03-25
Movie The White Devil Hadschi Murat 1930-01-28
Movie The Adjutant of the Czar Prince Boris Kurbski 1929-02-12
Movie Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures Manolescu 1929-04-30
Movie The President Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer 1928-03-20
Movie The Secret Courier Julien Sorel 1928-10-25
Movie Loves of Casanova Casanova 1927-10-08
Movie Surrender Constantine 1927-01-02
Movie Michel Strogoff Michael Strogoff 1926-06-30
Movie The Late Mathias Pascal Mathias Pascal 1925-07-02
Movie Kean Edmund Kean 1924-02-14
Movie Les Ombres Qui Passent Louis Barclay 1924-07-20
Movie The Lion of the Moguls le prince Roundghito-Sing 1924-12-12
Movie The House of Mystery Julien Villandrit 1923-01-02
Movie The Burning Crucible Zed, le détective 1923-08-04
Movie Member Of Parliament Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer 1923-01-07
Movie Tempêtes Henri 1922-06-09
Movie Justice d'abord 1921-01-02
Movie The Child of the Carnival Marquis Octave de Granier 1921-07-29
Movie A Narrow Escape Octave de Granier 1920-11-19
Movie Father and Son 1919-02-23
Movie The Queen's Secret 1919-11-05
Movie Little Ellie Norton, city's mayor 1918-01-19
Movie Knight's Spirit Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy 1918-03-25
Movie Father Sergius Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius 1918-05-14
Movie The Prosecutor Eric Olsen, prosecutor 1917-02-20
Movie Blood Need Not Be Spilled 1917-05-30
Movie Behind the Screen Ivan Mosjoukine 1917-07-28
Movie Satan Triumphant Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro 1917-10-21
Movie The Queen of Spades Hermann 1916-04-01
Movie In The Wild Blindness Of Desires Nikolay 1916-01-19
Movie Life is a Moment, Art is Forever Prince Boleslav 1916-05-03
Movie Sin Lavrov, engineer 1916-09-20
Movie The Dagger Woman Sakhovskiy, the painter 1916-05-31
Movie Beggar Woman Poet 1916-10-11
Movie And The Song Remained Unfinished Doctor Rakitin 1916-06-14
Movie Petersburg Slums 1915-01-02
Movie Idols Giu Kolman 1915-03-21
Movie War and Peace Prince Bolkonsky 1915-02-13
Movie Me And My Conscience Gleb Znamenskiy 1915-10-06
Movie Nikolay Stavrogin Nikolay Stavrogin 1915-09-01
Movie Life in Death Dr. Renaud 1914-10-24
Movie Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy Russian officer 1914-11-01
Movie Her Heroic Feat Robert 1914-09-29
Movie Woman of Tomorrow Nikolay, Anna's husband 1914-04-27
Movie Chrysanthemums Vladimir 1914-11-03
Movie Tomboy Anatoliy, painter 1914-10-18
Movie Mazepa Mazepa 1914-12-30
Movie Mysterious Someone Writer 1914-11-09
Movie The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights Prince Elisei 1914-12-29
Movie Do You Remember?.. Yaron 1914-12-25
Movie Wicked Night Georges Vinogradov, a student 1914-11-18
Movie Accession of the Romanov Dynasty 1913-03-01
Movie Drunkenness and Its Consequences 1913-01-01
Movie In the Hands of Merciless Fate 1913-01-02
Movie Uncle's Apartment Koko 1913-05-07
Movie The Night Before Christmas Devil 1913-12-26
Movie The Little House in Kolomna Officer of the guard / Mavrusha 1913-10-09
Movie The Precipice Rayskiy 1913-09-17
Movie Sorrows of Sarah Isaak 1913-09-09
Movie The In-Law Ivan 1912-08-19
Movie The Peasants' Lot Pyotr 1912-11-26
Movie Na boykom meste 1911-01-01
Movie The Brigand Brothers Brigand 1911-01-01
Movie The Kreutzer Sonata 1911-01-02
Movie Defence of Sevastopol Kornilov, and an associte of the envoy of the Menikov retinue 1911-12-22
Movie At Midnight in the Graveyard 1910-02-12