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Ivan Mosjoukine

Ivan Mosjoukine

Actor

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.

Born: September 26, 1889 in Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died: January 18, 1939 (Age 49)

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Ivan Mosjoukine  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.9
ActorCasanova1927
Movie
7.1
ActorZed, le détective1923
Movie
7.2
ActorJulien Villandrit1923
Short Film
5.9
ActorDevil1913
Movie
6.4
ActorEdmund Kean1924
Movie
6.6
ActorPrince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius1918
Movie
6.4
ActorHermann1916
Movie
6.5
ActorPastor Talnoks; his son Sandro1917
Movie
5.6
ActorKornilov, and an associte of the envoy of the Menikov retinue1911
Movie
6.4
Actorle prince Roundghito-Sing1924
Movie
7
ActorMichael Strogoff1926
Movie
7.2
ActorHadschi Murat1930
Movie
7.5
ActorPrince Boris Kurbski1929
Movie
6.7
ActorOctave de Granier1920
Movie
7
ActorLouis Barclay1924
Movie
6.1
Actor1918
Movie
7.4
ActorManolescu1929
Movie
6
ActorConstantine1927
Short Film
6.2
ActorNikolay, Anna's husband1914
Short Film
5.9
Actor1916
Movie
6.5
Actor1921
Movie
Actor1915
Movie
ActorEric Olsen, prosecutor1917
Movie
8.3
ActorJean Renault1932
Movie
5.1
Actor1916
Movie
ActorDr. Renaud1914
Movie
7.1
Actor1913
Movie
6.6
ActorMarquis Octave de Granier1921
Movie
ActorHenri1922
Movie
6.2
Actor1923
Movie
ActorChico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer1928
Movie
Actor1918
Movie
7.1
Actor1917
Movie
6.5
Actor1913
Movie
6
ActorTahar1933
Movie
Actor1916
Movie
ActorRayskiy1913
Movie
ActorAnatoli1914
Movie
ActorYaron1914
Movie
6.7
ActorIvan Mosjoukine1917
Movie
Actor1915
Movie
7.9
ActorPrince Bolkonsky1915
Movie
8.8
ActorSelf (archive footage)1998
Movie
Actor1919
Movie
7.4
Actor1934
Movie
8.1
Actor1934
Movie
Actor1919
Movie
5.7
Actor1936
Movie
6.8
ActorMathias Pascal1925
Movie
6.2
ActorJulien Sorel1928
Movie
ActorMr. Kuleshov2023
Short Film
5.9
ActorHussar / Mavrusha1913
Short Film
5.8
ActorYounger brother1912
Short Film
6.6
ActorIvan1912
Short Film
5.6
ActorRussian officer1914
Short Film
5.9
ActorVladimir1914
Short Film
6.3
Actor1911
Short Film
ActorRobert1914
Short Film
ActorSergey Nevedov, doctor's son1914
Short Film
Actor1910
Short Film
ActorMazepa1914
Short Film
6
ActorKoko1913
Short Film
5.6
ActorIsaak1913
Short Film
4.9
ActorThe coachman1911
Short Film
5
ActorPyotr1912
Short Film
ActorCrown Prince Elisei1914
Short Film
ActorAleksey1915
Short Film
ActorSurguchyov, factory's clerk1912
Short Film
Actor1912
Short Film
ActorPrince1913
Movie
6.4
DirectingScreenplay, Director of Photography1924
Movie
7.2
WritingWriter1923
Movie
7.1
DirectingDirector, Scenario Writer, Screenplay1923
Movie
6.4
WritingIdea1924
Movie
6.9
WritingScreenplay1927
Movie
6.7
WritingScreenplay1920
Movie
7
WritingScenario Writer1924
Movie
8.1
WritingWriter1934
Movie
6.5
WritingWriter1921
Movie
5.1
WritingWriter1916
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1921
Movie
WritingScreenplay1922
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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