Ivan Mosjoukine

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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

Woman of Tomorrow

19145.4

Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

1916

Beggar Woman

19165.0

Petersburg Slums

1915

Chrysanthemums

19146.3

Sin

19169.0

Natasha Rostova

1915

Loves of Casanova

19276.3

А счастье было так возможно

1916

The White Devil

19307.3

Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden

1916

The Man

1912

The 1002nd Night

19335.5

The Late Mathias Pascal

19257.0

Kean

19246.5

Casanova

19348.0

What Is Sex?

2024

Michel Strogoff

19266.7

Surrender

19276.5

The Precipice

19137.0

The Burning Crucible

19236.7

Sorrows of Sarah

19135.8

The Secret Courier

19288.0

L'enfant du carnaval

19348.0

The Peasants' Lot

19125.0

The President

19289.0

The Adjutant of the Czar

19298.5

Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers

19299.0

Cinema in Russia

19794.0

The House of Mystery

19235.3

The Child of the Carnival

1921

Les Ombres Qui Passent

192410.0

The Dagger Woman

1916

Mazepa

1914

Life in Death

19149.0

Tempêtes

19229.0

Father Sergius

19185.3

Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

19139.0

Nitchevo

193610.0

Wicked Night

1914

Do You Remember?..

19147.5

The Queen's Secret

19197.0

The Queen of Spades

19165.3

Knight's Spirit

19185.8

The Kreutzer Sonata

19117.0

The In-Law

19125.0

Dance of Death

1917

Behind the Screen

191710.0

The Night Before Christmas

19135.1

A Narrow Escape

19206.8

The Lion of the Moguls

19246.9

The Robber Brothers

19124.8

Mysterious Someone

1914

Member Of Parliament

19234.3

Little Ellie

1918

Satan Triumphant

19176.7

The Prosecutor

1917

Me And My Conscience

1915

In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

1916

A Terrible Revenge

1913

Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child

1998

Idols

1915

Justice d'abord

19217.0

The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

1914

Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

19145.7

Worker's Quarters

19127.0

Alcoholism and Its Consequences

19139.0

Brothers

1913

Tomboy

1914

Sergeant X

19329.0

At Midnight in the Graveyard

19108.0

Panna Meri

1916

In A Lively Place

1911

Kuleshov Effect

19196.4

Defence of Sevastopol

19115.1

Uncle's Apartment

19135.8

Nikolay Stavrogin

1915

The Little House in Kolomna

19135.8

In the Hands of Merciless Fate

1914

Her Heroic Feat

19148.0

And The Song Remained Unfinished

1916

Khaz-Bulat

1913

Vanyushin's Children

1915

Scary Corpse

1912

The Spring's Stream

1912