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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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · What Is Sex? as Mr. Kuleshov
- 1998 · Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child as Self (archive footage)
- 1979 · Cinema in Russia as Film footage
- 1936 · Nitchevo as
- 1934 · L'enfant du carnaval as
- 1934 · Casanova as
- 1933 · The 1002nd Night as Tahar
- 1932 · Sergeant X as Jean Renault
- 1930 · The White Devil as Hadschi Murat
- 1929 · Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures as Manolescu
- 1929 · The Adjutant of the Czar as Prince Boris Kurbski
- 1928 · The Secret Courier as Julien Sorel
- 1928 · The President as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
- 1927 · Loves of Casanova as Casanova
- 1927 · Surrender as Constantine
- 1926 · Michel Strogoff as Michael Strogoff
- 1925 · The Late Mathias Pascal as Mathias Pascal
- 1924 · The Lion of the Moguls as le prince Roundghito-Sing
- 1924 · Les Ombres Qui Passent as Louis Barclay
- 1924 · Kean as Edmund Kean
- 1923 · The Burning Crucible as Zed, le détective
- 1923 · Member of parliament as
- 1923 · The House of Mystery as Julien Villandrit
- 1922 · Tempêtes as Henri
- 1921 · The Child of the Carnival as Marquis Octave de Granier
- 1921 · Justice d'abord as
- 1920 · A Narrow Escape as Octave de Granier
- 1919 · The Queen's Secret as
- 1919 · Father and Son as
- 1919 · Kuleshov Effect as
- 1918 · Father Sergius as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
- 1918 · Spirit of the Knight as
- 1918 · Little Ellie as
- 1917 · Satan Triumphant as Pastor Talnoks; his son Sandro
- 1917 · Behind the Screen as Ivan Mosjoukine
- 1917 · Blood Need Not Be Spilled as
- 1917 · The Prosecutor as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
- 1916 · Beggar Woman as
- 1916 · Zhenshchina s kinzhalom as
- 1916 · Life is a Moment, Art is Forever as Prince Boleslav
- 1916 · The Queen of Spades as Hermann
- 1916 · V buynoy slepote strastey as Nikolay
- 1916 · Dance of death as
- 1916 · Sin as
- 1916 · I pesn ostalas nedopetoy as
- 1915 · Я и моя совесть as
- 1915 · Nikolay Stavrogin as
- 1915 · Vanyushin's Children as
- 1915 · Kumiry as
- 1915 · War and Peace as Prince Bolkonsky
- 1915 · Petersburg Slums as
- 1914 · Mazepa as Mazepa
- 1914 · Skazka o spyashchei i tsarevne i semi bogatryakh as Crown Prince Elisei
- 1914 · Wicked Night as Georges Vinogradov, a student
- 1914 · Mysterious Someone as Writer
- 1914 · Chrysanthemums as Vladimir
- 1914 · Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy as Russian officer
- 1914 · Life in Death as Dr. Renaud
- 1914 · Sorvanets as Anatoli
- 1914 · Her Heroic Feat as Robert
- 1914 · Woman of Tomorrow as Nikolay, Anna's husband
- 1914 · Ty pomnish' li? as Yaron
- 1913 · Хаз-Булат as Prince
- 1913 · The Night Before Christmas as Devil
- 1913 · The Little House in Kolomna as Officer of the guard / Mavrusha
- 1913 · The Precipice as Rayskiy
- 1913 · Sorrows of Sarah as
- 1913 · Uncle's Apartment as
- 1913 · Accession of the Romanov Dynasty as
- 1913 · In the Hands of Merciless Fate as
- 1913 · Drunkenness and Its Consequences as
- 1912 · The Peasants' Lot as Petr
- 1912 · The In-Law as Ivan
- 1912 · Worker's Quarters as
- 1912 · Strasnie pokoynik as
- 1911 · Defence of Sevastopol as Kornilov, and an associte of the envoy of the Menikov retinue
- 1911 · The Kreutzer Sonata as
- 1911 · The Brigand Brothers as Brigand
- 1911 · Na boykom meste as
- 1910 · At Midnight in the Graveyard as