Acting · Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia] · Born September 26, 1889
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.
MovieWhat Is Sex?
2024
as Mr. Kuleshov
MovieIvan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
1998
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCinema in Russia
1979
as Film footage
MovieNitchevo
1936
MovieL'enfant du carnaval
1934
MovieCasanova
1934
MovieThe 1002nd Night
1933
as Tahar
MovieSergeant X
1932
as Jean Renault
The White Devil
1930
as Hadschi Murat
MovieManolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
1929
as Manolescu
MovieThe Adjutant of the Czar
1929
as Prince Boris Kurbski
MovieThe Secret Courier
1928
as Julien Sorel
MovieThe President
1928
as Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
MovieLoves of Casanova
1927
as Casanova
MovieSurrender
1927
as Constantine
MovieMichel Strogoff
1926
as Michael Strogoff
MovieThe Late Mathias Pascal
1925
as Mathias Pascal
MovieThe Lion of the Moguls
1924
as le prince Roundghito-Sing
MovieLes Ombres Qui Passent
1924
as Louis Barclay
MovieKean
1924
as Edmund Kean
MovieThe Burning Crucible
1923
as Zed, le détective
Member Of Parliament
1923
as Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
MovieThe House of Mystery
1923
as Julien Villandrit
Tempêtes
1922
as Henri
MovieThe Child of the Carnival
1921
as Marquis Octave de Granier
MovieJustice d'abord
1921
MovieA Narrow Escape
1920
as Octave de Granier
MovieThe Queen's Secret
1919
as Paul, lord Verden's son
MovieKuleshov Effect
1919
MovieFather Sergius
1918
as Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
MovieKnight's Spirit
1918
as Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
MovieLittle Ellie
1918
as Norton, city's mayor
MovieSatan Triumphant
1917
as Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
MovieBehind the Screen
1917
as Ivan Mosjoukine
MovieThe Prosecutor
1917
as Eric Olsen, prosecutor
MovieDance of Death
1917
as Mark Galich, music composer
MovieBeggar Woman
1916
as Poet
MoviePanna Meri
1916
MovieSin
1916
as Lavrov, engineer
MovieAnd The Song Remained Unfinished
1916
as Doctor Rakitin
MovieThe Dagger Woman
1916
as Sakhovskiy, the painter
MovieLife is a Moment, Art is Forever
1916
as Prince Boleslav
MovieThe Queen of Spades
1916
as Hermann
MovieIn The Wild Blindness Of Desires
1916
as Nikolay
MovieLong Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
1916
as Yuriy Galinskiy
MovieА счастье было так возможно
1916
MovieMe And My Conscience
1915
as Gleb Znamenskiy
MovieNikolay Stavrogin
1915
as Nikolay Stavrogin
MovieVanyushin's Children
1915
as Aleksey
MovieIdols
1915
as Giu Kolman
MovieNatasha Rostova
1915
as Anatole Kuragin
MoviePetersburg Slums
1915
MovieMazepa
1914
as Mazepa
MovieThe Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
1914
as Prince Elisei
MovieDo You Remember?..
1914
as Yaron
MovieIn the Hands of Merciless Fate
1914
as Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
MovieWicked Night
1914
as Georges Vinogradov, a student
Mysterious Someone
1914
as Writer
MovieChrysanthemums
1914
as Vladimir
MovieGlory to Us, Death to the Enemy
1914
as Russian officer
MovieLife in Death
1914
as Dr. Renaud
MovieTomboy
1914
as Anatoliy, painter
MovieHer Heroic Feat
1914
as Robert
MovieWoman of Tomorrow
1914
as Nikolay, Anna's husband
Khaz-Bulat
1913
as Prince
MovieThe Night Before Christmas
1913
as Devil
MovieBrothers
1913
as Aleksey
MovieThe Little House in Kolomna
1913
as Hussar / Mavrusha
The Precipice
1913
as Rayskiy
MovieSorrows of Sarah
1913
as Isaak
MovieUncle's Apartment
1913
as Koko
MovieAccession of the Romanov Dynasty
1913
MovieA Terrible Revenge
1913
as Petro the wizard
MovieAlcoholism and Its Consequences
1913
as Alcoholic
MovieThe Peasants' Lot
1912
as Pyotr
The Man
1912
as Boris, Barkov's son
MovieThe Spring's Stream
1912
as Albov, the painter
MovieThe In-Law
1912
as Ivan
Worker's Quarters
1912
as Surguchyov, factory's clerk
MovieScary Corpse
1912
The Robber Brothers
1912
as Younger brother
MovieDefence of Sevastopol
1911
as Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
MovieIn A Lively Place
1911
as The coachman
MovieThe Kreutzer Sonata
1911
as Trukhachevskiy
At Midnight in the Graveyard
1910
