
1889-09-26 ( 135 years old ) in Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
Movies
What Is Sex?
2024-06-29
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
1998-01-01
Cinema in Russia
1979-08-27
Nitchevo
1936-12-18
L'enfant du carnaval
1934-04-26
Casanova
1934-04-13
The 1002nd Night
1933-05-19
Sergeant X
1932-03-25
The White Devil
1930-01-28
Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
1929-04-30
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929-02-12
The Secret Courier
1928-10-25
The President
1928-03-20
Loves of Casanova
1927-10-08
Surrender
1927-01-02
Michel Strogoff
1926-06-30
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925-07-02
The Lion of the Moguls
1924-12-12
Les Ombres Qui Passent
1924-07-20
Kean
1924-02-14
The Burning Crucible
1923-08-04
Member Of Parliament
1923-01-07
The House of Mystery
1923-01-02
Tempêtes
1922-06-09
The Child of the Carnival
1921-07-29
Justice d'abord
1921-01-02
A Narrow Escape
1920-11-19
The Queen's Secret
1919-11-05
Kuleshov Effect
1919-01-01
Father Sergius
1918-05-14
Knight's Spirit
1918-03-25
Little Ellie
1918-01-19
Satan Triumphant
1917-10-21
Behind the Screen
1917-07-28
The Prosecutor
1917-02-20
Dance of Death
1917-01-03
Beggar Woman
1916-10-11
Panna Meri
1916-10-04
Sin
1916-09-20
And The Song Remained Unfinished
1916-06-14
The Dagger Woman
1916-05-31
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
1916-05-03
The Queen of Spades
1916-04-19
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
1916-01-19
Me And My Conscience
1915-10-06
Nikolay Stavrogin
1915-09-01
Vanyushin's Children
1915-04-07
Idols
1915-03-21
Petersburg Slums
1915-01-02
Mazepa
1914-12-30
Do You Remember?..
1914-12-25
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
1914-12-11
Wicked Night
1914-11-18
Mysterious Someone
1914-11-09
Chrysanthemums
1914-11-03
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
1914-11-01
Life in Death
1914-10-24
Tomboy
1914-10-18
Her Heroic Feat
1914-09-29
Woman of Tomorrow
1914-04-27
Khaz-Bulat
1913-12-27
The Night Before Christmas
1913-12-26
Brothers
1913-11-19
The Little House in Kolomna
1913-10-09
The Precipice
1913-09-17
Sorrows of Sarah
1913-09-09
Uncle's Apartment
1913-05-07
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
1913-03-01
A Terrible Revenge
1913-01-01
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
1913-01-01
The Peasants' Lot
1912-11-26
The Man
1912-10-16
The Spring's Stream
1912-09-04
The In-Law
1912-08-19
Worker's Quarters
1912-04-07
Scary Corpse
1912-01-01
The Robber Brothers
1912-01-01
Defence of Sevastopol
1911-12-22
In A Lively Place
1911-11-22
The Kreutzer Sonata
1911-01-02
At Midnight in the Graveyard
1910-02-12
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