Ivan Mosjoukine
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 26, 1889
- Died
- January 18, 1939 (aged 49)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
What Is Sex?
Movie · as Mr. Kuleshov
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
Movie · as Film footage
Nitchevo
Movie
L'enfant du carnaval
Movie
Casanova
Movie
The 1002nd Night
Movie · as Tahar
Sergeant X
Movie · as Jean Renault
The White Devil
Movie · as Hadschi Murat
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
Movie · as Manolescu
The Adjutant of the Czar
Movie · as Prince Boris Kurbski
The Secret Courier
Movie · as Julien Sorel
The President
Movie · as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
Loves of Casanova
Movie · as Casanova
Surrender
Movie · as Constantine
Michel Strogoff
Movie · as Michael Strogoff
The Late Mathias Pascal
Movie · as Mathias Pascal
The Lion of the Moguls
Movie · as le prince Roundghito-Sing
Les Ombres Qui Passent
Movie · as Louis Barclay
Kean
Movie · as Edmund Kean
The Burning Crucible
Movie · as Zed, le détective
The House of Mystery
Movie · as Julien Villandrit
Member Of Parliament
Movie · as Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
Tempêtes
Movie · as Henri
Justice d'abord
Movie
The Child of the Carnival
Movie · as Marquis Octave de Granier
A Narrow Escape
Movie · as Octave de Granier
Kuleshov Effect
Movie
The Queen's Secret
Movie · as Paul, lord Verden's son
A Knight of the Spirit
Movie · as Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
Father Sergius
Movie · as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
Little Ellie
Movie · as Norton, city's mayor
Satan Triumphant
Movie · as Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
The Prosecutor
Movie · as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
Behind the Screen
Movie · as Ivan Mosjoukine
Dance of Death
Movie · as Mark Galich, music composer
And The Song Remained Unfinished
Movie · as Doctor Rakitin
The Beggar Woman
Movie · as Poet
The Queen of Spades
Movie · as Hermann
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
Movie · as Prince Boleslav
Sin
Movie · as Lavrov, engineer
The Dagger Woman
Movie · as Sakhovskiy, the painter
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
Movie · as Nikolay
Panna Meri
Movie
А счастье было так возможно
Movie
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
Movie · as Yuriy Galinskiy
Vanyushin's Children
Movie · as Aleksey
Me And My Conscience
Movie · as Gleb Znamenskiy
Nikolay Stavrogin
Movie · as Nikolay Stavrogin
Idols
Movie · as Giu Kolman
Petersburg Slums
Movie
Natasha Rostova
Movie · as Anatole Kuragin
Chrysanthemums
Movie · as Vladimir
Woman of Tomorrow
Movie · as Nikolay, Anna's husband
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
Movie · as Russian officer
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
Movie · as Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
Life in Death
Movie · as Dr. Renaud
Mazepa
Movie · as Mazepa
Mysterious Someone
Movie · as Writer
Wicked Night
Movie · as Georges Vinogradov, a student
Her Heroic Feat
Movie · as Robert
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
Movie · as Prince Elisei
Tomboy
Movie · as Anatoliy, painter
Do You Remember?..
Movie · as Yaron
Khaz-Bulat
Movie · as Prince
The Night Before Christmas
Movie · as Devil
A Terrible Revenge
Movie · as Petro the wizard
The Little House in Kolomna
Movie · as Hussar / Mavrusha
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
Movie · as Alcoholic
Uncle's Apartment
Movie · as Koko
Sorrows of Sarah
Movie · as Isaak
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
Movie
The Precipice
Movie · as Rayskiy
Brothers
Movie · as Aleksey
Worker's Quarters
Movie · as Surguchyov, factory's clerk
Scary Corpse
Movie
The Peasants' Lot
Movie · as Pyotr
The In-Law
Movie · as Ivan
The Robber Brothers
Movie · as Younger brother
The Spring's Stream
Movie · as Albov, the painter
The Man
Movie · as Boris, Barkov's son
Defence of Sevastopol
Movie · as Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
The Kreutzer Sonata
Movie · as Trukhachevskiy
In A Lively Place
Movie · as The coachman
At Midnight in the Graveyard
Movie