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