Cast
Ivan Mosjoukine
Acting
Cast
Ivan Mosjoukine
Known for
Acting
Born
1889-09-26
From
Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
1939-01-18
Also known as Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Ivan Mosjoukin
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.
MOVIE1915
Petersburg Slums
MOVIE1916
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
as Prince Boleslav
★6.3
MOVIE1914
Chrysanthemums
as Vladimir
★6.3
MOVIE1927
Loves of Casanova
as Casanova
MOVIE1916
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
as Yuriy Galinskiy
★9.0
MOVIE1916
Sin
as Lavrov, engineer
★7.0
MOVIE1925
The Late Mathias Pascal
as Mathias Pascal
★5.0
MOVIE1916
Beggar Woman
as Poet
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Casanova
MOVIE1915
Natasha Rostova
as Anatole Kuragin
★7.3
MOVIE1930
The White Devil
as Hadschi Murat
★5.5
MOVIE1933
The 1002nd Night
as Tahar
MOVIE1916
А счастье было так возможно
★5.4
MOVIE1914
Woman of Tomorrow
as Nikolay, Anna's husband
MOVIE1912
The Man
as Boris, Barkov's son
★6.5
MOVIE1924
Kean
as Edmund Kean
MOVIE2024
What Is Sex?
as Mr. Kuleshov
★5.3
MOVIE1918
Father Sergius
as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
★8.5
MOVIE1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
as Prince Boris Kurbski
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
as Manolescu
★8.0
MOVIE1928
The Secret Courier
as Julien Sorel
★4.0
MOVIE1979
Cinema in Russia
as Film footage
MOVIE1913
Khaz-Bulat
as Prince
★6.7
MOVIE1926
Michel Strogoff
as Michael Strogoff
★6.9
MOVIE1924
The Lion of the Moguls
as le prince Roundghito-Sing
MOVIE1913
Brothers
as Aleksey
★8.0
MOVIE1934
L'enfant du carnaval
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Justice d'abord
★6.5
MOVIE1927
Surrender
as Constantine
★5.1
MOVIE1911
Defence of Sevastopol
as Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
★5.1
MOVIE1913
The Night Before Christmas
as Devil
★5.0
MOVIE1912
The Peasants' Lot
as Pyotr
MOVIE1911
In A Lively Place
as The coachman
★7.0
MOVIE1913
The Precipice
as Rayskiy
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Tempêtes
as Henri
★8.0
MOVIE1910
At Midnight in the Graveyard
★8.0
MOVIE1914
Her Heroic Feat
as Robert
MOVIE1914
Mazepa
as Mazepa
★6.7
MOVIE1923
The Burning Crucible
as Zed, le détective
★9.0
MOVIE1914
Life in Death
as Dr. Renaud
★5.8
MOVIE1918
Knight's Spirit
as Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
★5.8
MOVIE1913
The Little House in Kolomna
as Hussar / Mavrusha
MOVIE1912
The Spring's Stream
as Albov, the painter
MOVIE1921
The Child of the Carnival
as Marquis Octave de Granier
MOVIE1998
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
as Self (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE1912
The Robber Brothers
as Younger brother
★5.7
MOVIE1914
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
as Russian officer
★7.0
MOVIE1911
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Trukhachevskiy
MOVIE1918
Little Ellie
as Norton, city's mayor
★5.3
MOVIE1916
The Queen of Spades
as Hermann
★6.4
MOVIE1919
Kuleshov Effect
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Nitchevo
★5.8
MOVIE1913
Uncle's Apartment
as Koko
MOVIE1915
Me And My Conscience
as Gleb Znamenskiy
★10.0
MOVIE1924
Les Ombres Qui Passent
as Louis Barclay
★5.3
MOVIE1923
The House of Mystery
as Julien Villandrit
MOVIE1914
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
as Prince Elisei
★5.8
MOVIE1913
Sorrows of Sarah
as Isaak
MOVIE1916
And The Song Remained Unfinished
as Doctor Rakitin
MOVIE1917
The Prosecutor
as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
★7.5
MOVIE1914
Do You Remember?..
as Yaron
MOVIE1916
The Dagger Woman
as Sakhovskiy, the painter
MOVIE1913
A Terrible Revenge
as Petro the wizard
MOVIE1916
Panna Meri
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Sergeant X
as Jean Renault
MOVIE1916
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
as Nikolay
MOVIE1914
Tomboy
as Anatoliy, painter
★6.8
MOVIE1920
A Narrow Escape
as Octave de Granier
★7.0
MOVIE1919
The Queen's Secret
as Paul, lord Verden's son
MOVIE1914
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
as Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
MOVIE1915
Nikolay Stavrogin
as Nikolay Stavrogin
★4.3
MOVIE1923
Member Of Parliament
as Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
MOVIE1915
Idols
as Giu Kolman
MOVIE1915
Vanyushin's Children
as Aleksey
★10.0
MOVIE1917
Behind the Screen
as Ivan Mosjoukine
MOVIE1912
Scary Corpse
★5.0
MOVIE1912
The In-Law
as Ivan
★6.7
MOVIE1917
Satan Triumphant
as Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
★9.0
MOVIE1913
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
MOVIE1917
Dance of Death
as Mark Galich, music composer
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The President
as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
★7.0
MOVIE1912
Worker's Quarters
as Surguchyov, factory's clerk
MOVIE1914
Wicked Night
as Georges Vinogradov, a student
★9.0
MOVIE1913
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
as Alcoholic
MOVIE1914
Mysterious Someone
as Writer