Born
26 September 1889 (136)
Place of Birth
Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also known as
Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, Ivan Mozzhukhin
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 ...
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.
What Is Sex?
2024
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
1998
Cinema in Russia
1979
Nitchevo
1936
L'enfant du carnaval
1934
Casanova
1934
The 1002nd Night
1933
Sergeant X
1932
The White Devil
1930
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929
The Secret Courier
1928
The President
1928
Loves of Casanova
1927
Surrender
1927
Michel Strogoff
1926
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925
The Lion of the Moguls
1924
Les Ombres Qui Passent
1924
Kean
1924
The Burning Crucible
1923
Member Of Parliament
1923
The House of Mystery
1923
Tempêtes
1922
The Child of the Carnival
1921
Justice d'abord
1921
A Narrow Escape
1920
The Queen's Secret
1919
Kuleshov Effect
1919
Father Sergius
1918
Knight's Spirit
1918
Little Ellie
1918
Satan Triumphant
1917
Behind the Screen
1917
The Prosecutor
1917
Dance of Death
1917
Beggar Woman
1916
Panna Meri
1916
Sin
1916
And The Song Remained Unfinished
1916