Ivan Mosjoukine

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1889-09-26
  • event Death Date 1939-01-18
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 1
  • info Birth Place Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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Kuleshov Effect

1919-01-01

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And The Song Remained Unfinished

1916-06-14

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Vanyushin's Children

1915-04-07

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Nikolay Stavrogin

1915-09-01

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Me And My Conscience

1915-10-06

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L'enfant du carnaval

1934-04-26

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Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child

1998-01-01

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Nitchevo

1936-12-18

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The Queen's Secret

1919-11-05

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Casanova

1934-04-13

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Worker's Quarters

1912-04-07

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Scary Corpse

1912-01-01

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The Late Mathias Pascal

1925-07-02

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Loves of Casanova

1927-10-08

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Khaz-Bulat

1913-12-27

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Idols

1915-03-21

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The Lion of the Moguls

1924-12-12

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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures

1929-04-30

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The Burning Crucible

1923-08-04

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Les Ombres Qui Passent

1924-07-20

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Chrysanthemums

1914-11-03

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Woman of Tomorrow

1914-04-27

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A Narrow Escape

1920-11-19

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Beggar Woman

1916-10-11

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Satan Triumphant

1917-10-21

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Knight's Spirit

1918-03-25

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Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

1914-11-01

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Defence of Sevastopol

1911-12-22

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Petersburg Slums

1915-01-02

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Michel Strogoff

1926-06-30

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The Prosecutor

1917-02-20

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The Peasants' Lot

1912-11-26

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Behind the Screen

1917-07-28

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In the Hands of Merciless Fate

1914-12-11

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Justice d'abord

1921-01-02

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The Kreutzer Sonata

1911-01-02

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The House of Mystery

1923-01-02

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Cinema in Russia

1979-08-27

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Surrender

1927-01-02

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The White Devil

1930-01-28

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Sergeant X

1932-03-25

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The Night Before Christmas

1913-12-26

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The Adjutant of the Czar

1929-02-12

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The Secret Courier

1928-10-25

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Kean

1924-02-14

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The In-Law

1912-08-19

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What Is Sex?

2024-06-29

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Father Sergius

1918-05-14

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A Terrible Revenge

1913-01-01

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The Brigand Brothers

1911-01-01

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The Queen of Spades

1916-04-19

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The Little House in Kolomna

1913-10-09

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Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

1916-05-03

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At Midnight in the Graveyard

1910-02-12

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Life in Death

1914-10-24

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Alcoholism and Its Consequences

1913-01-01

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Mysterious Someone

1914-11-09

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Wicked Night

1914-11-18

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Mazepa

1914-12-30

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Sin

1916-09-20

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Her Heroic Feat

1914-09-29

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The President

1928-03-20

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Member Of Parliament

1923-01-07

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The Child of the Carnival

1921-07-29

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Tempêtes

1922-06-09

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Uncle's Apartment

1913-05-07

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Little Ellie

1918-01-19

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Sorrows of Sarah

1913-09-09

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In A Lively Place

1911-11-22

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Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

1913-03-01

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The 1002nd Night

1933-05-19

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The Dagger Woman

1916-05-31

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Tomboy

1914-10-18

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Do You Remember?..

1914-12-25

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The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

1914-12-29

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The Precipice

1913-09-17

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In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

1916-01-19

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Dance of Death

1917-01-03

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Panna Meri

1916-10-04

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Brothers

1913-11-19

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The Spring's Stream

1912-09-04

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The Man

1912-10-16

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