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Dimitri Kirsanoff
Born
Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan

6 March 1899 (1899-03-06)
DiedFebruary 11, 1957(1957-02-11) (aged 57)
Paris, France
NationalityRussian (Latvian or Estonian)
EducationÉcole Normale de Musique, Paris
OccupationFilm director
Spouse(s)Nadia Sibirskaïa
Berthe Noëlla Bessette (later known as Monique Kirsanoff)

Dimitri Kirsanoff (Template:Lang-ru) (6 March 1899 – 11 February 1957) was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.[1]

Early life

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan (Маркус Давид Зусманович Каплан)[2] on the 5th of March 1899 [3] in Tartu (then Juryev), Estonia, then Russian Empire . In the early 1920s he moved to Paris and became involved in cinema through playing cello in the orchestra at showings.[4] He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company.[1]

He was married to the actress Nadia Sibirskaïa who starred in several of his early films.

Filmography

  • L'ironie du destin (1923) lost film
  • Ménilmontant (1926)
  • Sables (1927)
  • Destiny (1927)
  • Brumes d'automne (1929)
  • Rapt: la séparation des races (1934)
  • Les berceaux (1935)
  • Visages de France (1936)
  • La fontaine d'Aréthuse (1936)
  • La jeune fille au jardin (1936)
  • Franco de port (1937)
  • La plus belle fille du monde ne peut donner que ce qu'elle a (1938)
  • L'avion de minuit (1938)
  • Quartier sans soleil (1939, released 1945)
  • Deux amis (1946)
  • Faits divers à Paris (1950)
  • Arrière-saison (1950)
  • La mort du cerf: une chasse à courre à Villiers-Cotterets (1951)
  • Le témoin de minuit (1953)
  • Le crâneur (1955)
  • Ce soir les jupons volent (1956)
  • Miss Catastrophe (1957)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, 1993. Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  2. ^ "Raduraksti - Войти". www.lvva-raduraksti.lv.
  3. ^ Hoyer, Dirk (1 December 2016). "Dimitri Kirsanoff: The Elusive Estonian". Baltic Screen Media Review. 4 (1): 5–15. doi:10.1515/bsmr-2017-0001.
  4. ^ "Dictionnaire du cinéma français des années vingt". Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC). Retrieved 2008-03-02.