Ivan Mosjoukine
Known for Acting · 85 credits
- Born
- 1889-09-26
- Died
- 1939-01-18
- Place of birth
- Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin · Ivan Mozzhukhin · Ivan Mosjoukin · Ivan Mosjukin · Ivan Mosjukine · Ivan Moskine
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
Movies (85)
Loves of Casanova
1927
as Casanova
Petersburg Slums
1915
Casanova
1934
Sin
1916
as Lavrov, engineer
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
1916
as Prince Boleslav
Chrysanthemums
1914
as Vladimir
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
1916
as Yuriy Galinskiy
Beggar Woman
1916
as Poet
А счастье было так возможно
1916
Natasha Rostova
1915
as Anatole Kuragin
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925
as Mathias Pascal
The Man
1912
as Boris, Barkov's son
Woman of Tomorrow
1914
as Nikolay, Anna's husband
The White Devil
1930
as Hadschi Murat
The 1002nd Night
1933
as Tahar
Kean
1924
as Edmund Kean
What Is Sex?
2024
as Mr. Kuleshov
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929
as Prince Boris Kurbski
The Night Before Christmas
1913
as Devil
Michel Strogoff
1926
as Michael Strogoff
The Burning Crucible
1923
as Zed, le détective
Cinema in Russia
1979
as Film footage
Father Sergius
1918
as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
1929
as Manolescu
Surrender
1927
as Constantine
Defence of Sevastopol
1911
as Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
The Prosecutor
1917
as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
Brothers
1913
as Aleksey
Me And My Conscience
1915
as Gleb Znamenskiy
Tempêtes
1922
as Henri
Life in Death
1914
as Dr. Renaud
The Secret Courier
1928
as Julien Sorel
The Lion of the Moguls
1924
as le prince Roundghito-Sing
The Peasants' Lot
1912
as Pyotr
The Spring's Stream
1912
as Albov, the painter
At Midnight in the Graveyard
1910
Mazepa
1914
as Mazepa
Justice d'abord
1921
Uncle's Apartment
1913
as Koko
The Precipice
1913
as Rayskiy
L'enfant du carnaval
1934
Her Heroic Feat
1914
as Robert
Little Ellie
1918
as Norton, city's mayor
Khaz-Bulat
1913
as Prince
The Child of the Carnival
1921
as Marquis Octave de Granier
The Kreutzer Sonata
1911
as Trukhachevskiy
Nitchevo
1936
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
1998
as Self (archive footage)
Les Ombres Qui Passent
1924
as Louis Barclay
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
1914
as Prince Elisei
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
1914
as Russian officer
The Queen of Spades
1916
as Hermann
The Little House in Kolomna
1913
as Hussar / Mavrusha
A Terrible Revenge
1913
as Petro the wizard
A Narrow Escape
1920
as Octave de Granier
Wicked Night
1914
as Georges Vinogradov, a student
Knight's Spirit
1918
as Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
Sorrows of Sarah
1913
as Isaak
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
1914
as Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
The House of Mystery
1923
as Julien Villandrit
Vanyushin's Children
1915
as Aleksey
Do You Remember?..
1914
as Yaron
Kuleshov Effect
1919
Nikolay Stavrogin
1915
as Nikolay Stavrogin
In A Lively Place
1911
as The coachman
Satan Triumphant
1917
as Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
The Robber Brothers
1912
as Younger brother
The Dagger Woman
1916
as Sakhovskiy, the painter
Panna Meri
1916
The Queen's Secret
1919
as Paul, lord Verden's son
Idols
1915
as Giu Kolman
Sergeant X
1932
as Jean Renault
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
1913
as Alcoholic
Mysterious Someone
1914
as Writer
The President
1928
as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
Tomboy
1914
as Anatoliy, painter
And The Song Remained Unfinished
1916
as Doctor Rakitin
Scary Corpse
1912
Member Of Parliament
1923
as Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
1916
as Nikolay
Worker's Quarters
1912
as Surguchyov, factory's clerk
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
1913
Dance of Death
1917
as Mark Galich, music composer
The In-Law
1912
as Ivan
Behind the Screen
1917
as Ivan Mosjoukine
About Ivan Mosjoukine
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… With 85 credits spanning from 1910 to 2024, Ivan Mosjoukine has appeared in 85 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ivan Mosjoukine Movies
- Loves of Casanova (1927) — as Casanova
- Petersburg Slums (1915)
- Casanova (1934)
- Sin (1916) — as Lavrov, engineer
- Life is a Moment, Art is Forever (1916) — as Prince Boleslav
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