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Ivan Mosjoukine

Ivan Mosjoukine

Actor · Born 1889-09-26 · Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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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 demo…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Late Mathias Pascal (1925) — Mathias Pascal
  2. Father Sergius (1918) — Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
  3. The Queen of Spades (1916) — Hermann
  4. Defence of Sevastopol (1911) — Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
  5. The Night Before Christmas (1913) — Devil
  6. The Burning Crucible (1923) — Zed, le détective
  7. Loves of Casanova (1927) — Casanova
  8. Satan Triumphant (1917) — Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
  9. Kean (1924) — Edmund Kean
  10. Uncle's Apartment (1913) — Koko
  11. Kuleshov Effect (1919)
  12. The Lion of the Moguls (1924) — le prince Roundghito-Sing
  13. The House of Mystery (1923) — Julien Villandrit
  14. Woman of Tomorrow (1914) — Nikolay, Anna's husband
  15. Knight's Spirit (1918) — Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
  16. A Narrow Escape (1920) — Octave de Granier
  17. The White Devil (1930) — Hadschi Murat
  18. The Little House in Kolomna (1913) — Hussar / Mavrusha
  19. Sorrows of Sarah (1913) — Isaak
  20. Chrysanthemums (1914) — Vladimir
  21. Beggar Woman (1916) — Poet
  22. Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy (1914) — Russian officer
  23. Michel Strogoff (1926) — Michael Strogoff
  24. The Adjutant of the Czar (1929) — Prince Boris Kurbski
  25. The Robber Brothers (1912) — Younger brother
  26. Member Of Parliament (1923) — Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
  27. Surrender (1927) — Constantine
  28. The In-Law (1912) — Ivan
  29. The 1002nd Night (1933) — Tahar
  30. Do You Remember?.. (1914) — Yaron
  31. Nitchevo (1936)
  32. L'enfant du carnaval (1934)
  33. Casanova (1934)
  34. The Queen's Secret (1919) — Paul, lord Verden's son
  35. Worker's Quarters (1912) — Surguchyov, factory's clerk
  36. Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers (1929) — Manolescu
  37. Les Ombres Qui Passent (1924) — Louis Barclay
  38. The Peasants' Lot (1912) — Pyotr
  39. Behind the Screen (1917) — Ivan Mosjoukine
  40. Justice d'abord (1921)

Directed

  1. The Burning Crucible (1923) — Director
  2. The Child of the Carnival (1921) — Director