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