Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin (Russian: Иван Ильич Мозжухин,
IPA: [ɪˈvan ɪˈlʲjitÉ• mÉ ËˆÊ'Ë Ê‰xʲɪn]; 26 September [O.S. 8
October] 1889â€"18 January 1939), usually billed using the French
transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor.Ivan
Mozzhukhin was born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the
Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), 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. He inherited this
position from his own father â€" a serf whose children were granted
freedom as a gratitude for his service.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. He also starred in A House in Kolomna (1913, after Pushkin),
Pyotr Chardynin directed drama Do You Remember? opposite the popular
Russian ballerina Vera Karalli (1914), Nikolay Stavrogin (1915, after
Dostoyevsky's The Devils aka The Possessed), The Queen of Spades
(1916, after Pushkin) and other adaptations of Russian
classics.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.
IPA: [ɪˈvan ɪˈlʲjitÉ• mÉ ËˆÊ'Ë Ê‰xʲɪn]; 26 September [O.S. 8
October] 1889â€"18 January 1939), usually billed using the French
transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor.Ivan
Mozzhukhin was born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the
Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), 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. He inherited this
position from his own father â€" a serf whose children were granted
freedom as a gratitude for his service.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. He also starred in A House in Kolomna (1913, after Pushkin),
Pyotr Chardynin directed drama Do You Remember? opposite the popular
Russian ballerina Vera Karalli (1914), Nikolay Stavrogin (1915, after
Dostoyevsky's The Devils aka The Possessed), The Queen of Spades
(1916, after Pushkin) and other adaptations of Russian
classics.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.
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.