Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- August 8, 1877
- Died
- September 26, 1945 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Khanzhonkovka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
Biography
In 1906 he opened the A. Khanzhonkov Trading House (since 1912 - A. Khanzhonkov & K JSC), the first Russian company selling and renting foreign films. Since 1907, he began production of game productions and chronicles. One of the founders of Russian cinematography. Vladislav Starevich, Eugene Bauer, Petr Chardynin, Vera Kholodnaya, Ivan Mozhuhin, Vera Caralli, Vitold Polonsky, Ivan Perestiani and others. In 1920, he emigrated after the nationalization of film enterprises. He lived in Constantinople, Milan, Venice and other European cities. In 1922 he was elected honorary chairman of the Union of Russian Cinema Figures of Germany. In 1923, at the invitation of Rusfilm, he returned to the USSR, worked as a consultant in Goskino, head. production of "Proletkino". In 1926 he was arrested among others. However, they had extra opportunities to work in professions. Rehabilitated in 1934. In the same year, in connection with the 15th anniversary of Soviet cinema, he received a personal state award. The author of memoirs published in the book "The First Years of Russian Cinematography" (1937) and other publications; essays published in the 1960s. He died on September 26, 1945 in Yalta, in poverty and complete oblivion.
Known For
Filmography
Glumov's Diary
Movie · Producer
Engineer Prite's Project
Movie · Producer
Miss Meri
Movie · Producer
Boulevard Slush
Movie · Producer
Dream And Life
Movie · Producer
Annushka's Case
Movie · Producer
A Revolutionary
Movie · Producer
The Dying Swan
Movie · Producer
A Woman’s Truth
Movie · Producer
In the Land of Love
Movie · Producer
Twilight
Movie · Producer
The Alarm
Movie · Producer
Assassination Attempt on the Governor
Movie · Producer
Another's Soul
Movie · Producer
The Retribution
Movie · Producer
Yuriy Nagorniy
Movie · Producer
Human Abysses
Movie · Producer
A Life for a Life
Movie · Producer
Mysterious World
Movie · Producer
The Moon Beauty
Movie · Producer
Lina's Adventure in Sochi
Movie · Producer
Nina
Movie · Producer
Nelly Raintseva
Movie · Producer
Who Ruined This Life?
Movie · Producer
Mirages
Movie · Producer
The Puppets of Fate
Movie · Producer
Сказка синего моря
Movie · Producer
Black Rocks Legend
Movie · Producer
Bronskiy Sisters
Movie · Producer
Гриф старого борца
Movie · Producer
Ямщик, не гони лошадей
Movie · Producer
After Death
Movie · Producer
Daydreams
Movie · Producer
Leon Drey
Movie · Producer
Song of Triumphant Love
Movie · Producer
The Pearl Necklace
Movie · Producer
The Happiness of Eternal Night
Movie · Producer
Children of the Age
Movie · Producer
Idols
Movie · Producer
The 1002nd Ruse
Movie · Producer
Love of a State Councillor
Movie · Producer
Natasha Rostova
Movie · Producer
Burnt Wings
Movie · Producer
Soul Mates
Movie · Producer
From Crime to Crime
Movie · Producer
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
Movie · Producer
Tears
Movie · Producer
Mysterious Someone
Movie · Producer
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
Movie · Producer
Her Heroic Feat
Movie · Producer
Chrysanthemums
Movie · Producer
Wicked Night
Movie · Producer
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
Movie · Producer
Silent Witnesses
Movie · Producer
Life in Death
Movie · Producer
Do You Remember?..
Movie · Producer
Only Once a Year
Movie · Producer
Child of the Big City
Movie · Producer
Cold Souls
Movie · Producer
The Child Of Science
Movie · Producer
The Little House in Kolomna
Movie · Producer
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
Movie · Producer
Sorrows of Sarah
Movie · Producer
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
Movie · Producer
Khaz-Bulat
Movie · Producer
A Terrible Revenge
Movie · Producer
The Cameraman's Revenge
Movie · Producer
A Trip to the Moon
Movie · Producer
The In-Law
Movie · Producer
The Spring's Stream
Movie · Producer
The Man
Movie · Producer
Defence of Sevastopol
Movie · Producer
In A Lively Place
Movie · Producer
Boyarin Orsha
Movie · Producer
At Midnight in the Graveyard
Movie · Producer
Vadim
Movie · Producer
Mermaid
Movie · Producer
Viy
Movie · Producer
A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding
Movie · Producer
The Enchantress
Movie · Producer
Vanka the Steward
Movie · Producer
Marriage
Movie · Producer
Dead Souls
Movie · Producer
Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow
Movie · Producer