Ivan Mosjoukine

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136

Movies

Born: September 26, 1889 – January 18, 1939
From: Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Biography

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.

Works

85 films

Chrysanthemums

19146.3

Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

1916

Woman of Tomorrow

19145.4

Petersburg Slums

1915

Beggar Woman

19165.0

Sin

19169.0

Natasha Rostova

1915

А счастье было так возможно

1916

Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden

1916

Loves of Casanova

19276.3

The White Devil

19307.3

The Man

1912

The 1002nd Night

19335.5

The Late Mathias Pascal

19257.0

Kean

19246.5

Casanova

19348.0

Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers

19299.0

What Is Sex?

2024

The House of Mystery

19235.3

Cinema in Russia

19794.0

Michel Strogoff

19266.7

The Secret Courier

19288.0

The In-Law

19125.0

Surrender

19276.5

The President

19289.0

L'enfant du carnaval

19348.0

The Queen of Spades

19165.3

A Narrow Escape

19206.8

The Precipice

19137.0

The Child of the Carnival

1921

Sorrows of Sarah

19135.8

Tomboy

1914

The Robber Brothers

19124.8

The Burning Crucible

19236.7

Tempêtes

19229.0

Do You Remember?..

19147.5

Father Sergius

19185.3

In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

1916

The Peasants' Lot

19125.0

A Terrible Revenge

1913

Life in Death

19149.0

The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

1914

Behind the Screen

191710.0

Member Of Parliament

19234.3

Vanyushin's Children

1915

Mysterious Someone

1914

The Dagger Woman

1916

The Night Before Christmas

19135.1

The Lion of the Moguls

19246.9

Les Ombres Qui Passent

192410.0

The Adjutant of the Czar

19298.5

Knight's Spirit

19185.8

Brothers

1913

Wicked Night

1914

Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

19139.0

The Little House in Kolomna

19135.8

The Kreutzer Sonata

19117.0

Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

19145.7

Nitchevo

193610.0

At Midnight in the Graveyard

19108.0

The Queen's Secret

19197.0

Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child

1998

The Prosecutor

1917

Mazepa

1914

Me And My Conscience

1915

Satan Triumphant

19176.7

Alcoholism and Its Consequences

19139.0

Dance of Death

1917

Kuleshov Effect

19196.4

Defence of Sevastopol

19115.1

Nikolay Stavrogin

1915

Idols

1915

Sergeant X

19329.0

Worker's Quarters

19127.0

Justice d'abord

19217.0

Little Ellie

1918

Uncle's Apartment

19135.8

Panna Meri

1916

In A Lively Place

1911

And The Song Remained Unfinished

1916

Her Heroic Feat

19148.0

Khaz-Bulat

1913

In the Hands of Merciless Fate

1914

The Spring's Stream

1912

Scary Corpse

1912