Ivan Mosjoukine
Acting
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(84)
What Is Sex?
Mr. Kuleshov
2024
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
Self (archive footage)
1998
Cinema in Russia
Film footage
1979
Nitchevo
1936
L'enfant du carnaval
1934
Casanova
1934
The 1002nd Night
Tahar
1933
Sergeant X
Jean Renault
1932
The White Devil
Hadschi Murat
1930
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
Manolescu
1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
Prince Boris Kurbski
1929
The Secret Courier
Julien Sorel
1928
The President
Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
1928
Loves of Casanova
Casanova
1927
Surrender
Constantine
1927
Michel Strogoff
Michael Strogoff
1926
The Late Mathias Pascal
Mathias Pascal
1925
The Lion of the Moguls
le prince Roundghito-Sing
1924
Les Ombres Qui Passent
Louis Barclay
1924
Kean
Edmund Kean
1924
The Burning Crucible
Zed, le détective
1923
Member Of Parliament
Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
1923
The House of Mystery
Julien Villandrit
1923
Tempêtes
Henri
1922
The Child of the Carnival
Marquis Octave de Granier
1921
Justice d'abord
1921
A Narrow Escape
Octave de Granier
1920
The Queen's Secret
Paul, lord Verden's son
1919
Kuleshov Effect
1919
Father Sergius
Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
1918
Knight's Spirit
Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
1918
Little Ellie
Norton, city's mayor
1918
Satan Triumphant
Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
1917
Behind the Screen
Ivan Mosjoukine
1917
The Prosecutor
Eric Olsen, prosecutor
1917
Dance of Death
Mark Galich, music composer
1917
Beggar Woman
Poet
1916
Panna Meri
1916
Sin
Lavrov, engineer
1916
And The Song Remained Unfinished
Doctor Rakitin
1916
The Dagger Woman
Sakhovskiy, the painter
1916
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
Prince Boleslav
1916
The Queen of Spades
Hermann
1916
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
Nikolay
1916
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
Yuriy Galinskiy
1916
А счастье было так возможно
1916
Me And My Conscience
Gleb Znamenskiy
1915
Nikolay Stavrogin
Nikolay Stavrogin
1915
Vanyushin's Children
Aleksey
1915
Idols
Giu Kolman
1915
Petersburg Slums
1915
Mazepa
Mazepa
1914
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
Prince Elisei
1914
Do You Remember?..
Yaron
1914
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
1914
Wicked Night
Georges Vinogradov, a student
1914
Mysterious Someone
Writer
1914
Chrysanthemums
Vladimir
1914
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
Russian officer
1914
Life in Death
Dr. Renaud
1914
Tomboy
Anatoliy, painter
1914
Her Heroic Feat
Robert
1914
Woman of Tomorrow
Nikolay, Anna's husband
1914
Khaz-Bulat
Prince
1913
The Night Before Christmas
Devil
1913
Brothers
Aleksey
1913
The Little House in Kolomna
Hussar / Mavrusha
1913
The Precipice
Rayskiy
1913
Sorrows of Sarah
Isaak
1913
Uncle's Apartment
Koko
1913
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
1913
A Terrible Revenge
Petro the wizard
1913
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
Alcoholic
1913
The Peasants' Lot
Pyotr
1912
The Man
Boris, Barkov's son
1912
The Spring's Stream
Albov, the painter
1912
The In-Law
Ivan
1912
Worker's Quarters
Surguchyov, factory's clerk
1912
Scary Corpse
1912
The Robber Brothers
Younger brother
1912
Defence of Sevastopol
Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
1911
In A Lively Place
The coachman
1911
The Kreutzer Sonata
Trukhachevskiy
1911
At Midnight in the Graveyard
1910