Name
Ivan Mosjoukine
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1889-09-26
Deathday
1939-01-18 (50 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, ...
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Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a ter...
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The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Cza...
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While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grand...
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It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage t...
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First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta du...
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A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best...
- 1919 Kuleshov Effect
- 1916 And The Song Remained Unfinished as Doctor Rakitin
- 1915 Vanyushin's Children as Aleksey
- 1915 Me And My Conscience as Gleb Znamenskiy
- 1915 Nikolay Stavrogin as Nikolay Stavrogin
- 1998 Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child as Self (archive footage)
- 1936 Nitchevo
- 1934 L'enfant du carnaval
- 1934 Casanova
- 1919 The Queen's Secret as Paul, lord Verden's son
- 1912 Worker's Quarters as Surguchyov, factory's clerk
- 1912 Scary Corpse
- 1925 The Late Mathias Pascal as Mathias Pascal
- 1927 Loves of Casanova as Casanova
- 1913 Khaz-Bulat as Prince
- 1915 Idols as Giu Kolman
- 1924 The Lion of the Moguls as le prince Roundghito-Sing
- 1929 Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers as Manolescu
- 1923 The Burning Crucible as Zed, le détective
- 1924 Les Ombres Qui Passent as Louis Barclay
- 1914 Chrysanthemums as Vladimir
- 1914 Woman of Tomorrow as Nikolay, Anna's husband
- 1920 A Narrow Escape as Octave de Granier
- 1916 The Beggar Woman as Poet
- 1917 Satan Triumphant as Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
- 1918 A Knight of the Spirit as Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
- 1914 Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy as Russian officer
- 1911 Defence of Sevastopol as Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
- 1915 Petersburg Slums
- 1926 Michel Strogoff as Michael Strogoff
- 1912 The Peasants' Lot as Pyotr
- 1917 The Prosecutor as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
- 1917 Behind the Screen as Ivan Mosjoukine
- 1914 In the Hands of Merciless Fate as Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
- 1921 Justice d'abord
- 1911 The Kreutzer Sonata as Trukhachevskiy
- 1923 The House of Mystery as Julien Villandrit
- 1979 Cinema in Russia as Film footage
- 1927 Surrender as Constantine
- 1930 The White Devil as Hadschi Murat
- 1932 Sergeant X as Jean Renault
- 1913 The Night Before Christmas as Devil
- 1929 The Adjutant of the Czar as Prince Boris Kurbski
- 1928 The Secret Courier as Julien Sorel
- 1924 Kean as Edmund Kean
- 1912 The In-Law as Ivan
- 2024 What Is Sex? as Mr. Kuleshov
- 1918 Father Sergius as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
- 1913 A Terrible Revenge as Petro the wizard
- 1912 The Robber Brothers as Younger brother
- 1916 The Queen of Spades as Hermann
- 1913 The Little House in Kolomna as Hussar / Mavrusha
- 1916 Life is a Moment, Art is Forever as Prince Boleslav
- 1914 Life in Death as Dr. Renaud
- 1914 Mazepa as Mazepa
- 1910 At Midnight in the Graveyard
- 1913 Alcoholism and Its Consequences as Alcoholic
- 1914 Mysterious Someone as Writer
- 1914 Wicked Night as Georges Vinogradov, a student
- 1916 Sin as Lavrov, engineer
- 1914 Her Heroic Feat as Robert
- 1928 The President as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
- 1921 The Child of the Carnival as Marquis Octave de Granier
- 1922 Tempêtes as Henri
- 1923 Member Of Parliament as Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
- 1913 Uncle's Apartment as Koko
- 1918 Little Ellie as Norton, city's mayor
- 1913 Sorrows of Sarah as Isaak
- 1911 In A Lively Place as The coachman
- 1913 Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
- 1933 The 1002nd Night as Tahar
- 1916 The Dagger Woman as Sakhovskiy, the painter
- 1914 The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights as Prince Elisei
- 1913 The Precipice as Rayskiy
- 1914 Tomboy as Anatoliy, painter
- 1914 Do You Remember?.. as Yaron
- 1916 In The Wild Blindness Of Desires as Nikolay
- 1917 Dance of Death as Mark Galich, music composer
- 1916 Panna Meri
- 1913 Brothers as Aleksey
- 1912 The Spring's Stream as Albov, the painter
- 1912 The Man as Boris, Barkov's son
- 1916 А счастье было так возможно
- 1916 Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden as Yuriy Galinskiy
- 1915 Natasha Rostova as Anatole Kuragin
