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==Early life==
==Early life==
Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan<ref name=lvva>{{cite web|url=http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/ru/menu/lv/7/ig/7/ie/3417/book/28751.html|title=Raduraksti - Войти|website=www.lvva-raduraksti.lv}}</ref> on 5 March 1899<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hoyer, Dirk |date=1 December 2016 |title=Dimitri Kirsanoff: The Elusive Estonian|journal=Baltic Screen Media Review|volume=4|issue=1 |pages=5–15|doi=10.1515/bsmr-2017-0001|url=https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/4/1/article-p4.xml|doi-access=free}}</ref> 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.<ref name="cinema1895">{{cite journal |url=http://1895.revues.org/document95.html#tocto10|title=Dictionnaire du cinéma français des années vingt|journal=1895. Mille Huit Cent Quatre-Vingt-Quinze. Revue de l'Association Française de Recherche Sur l'Histoire du Cinéma|date=June 2001|issue=33|pages=229–242|access-date=2 March 2008 |publisher=Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC)|doi=10.4000/1895.95|last1=Author|first1=No|doi-access=free}}</ref> He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company.<ref name="Bordwell"/>
Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan<ref name=lvva>{{cite web|url=http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/ru/menu/lv/7/ig/7/ie/3417/book/28751.html|title=Raduraksti - Войти|website=www.lvva-raduraksti.lv}}</ref> on 5 March 1899<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hoyer, Dirk |date=1 December 2016 |title=Dimitri Kirsanoff: The Elusive Estonian|journal=Baltic Screen Media Review|volume=4|issue=1 |pages=5–15|doi=10.1515/bsmr-2017-0001|url=https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/4/1/article-p4.xml|doi-access=free}}</ref> 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.<ref name="cinema1895">{{cite journal |url=http://1895.revues.org/document95.html#tocto10|title=Dictionnaire du cinéma français des années vingt|journal=1895. Mille Huit Cent Quatre-Vingt-Quinze. Revue de l'Association Française de Recherche Sur l'Histoire du Cinéma|date=June 2001|issue=33|pages=229–242|access-date=2 March 2008 |publisher=Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC)|doi=10.4000/1895.95|doi-access=free}}</ref> He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company.<ref name="Bordwell"/>


He was married to the actress [[Nadia Sibirskaïa]] who starred in several of his early films.
He was married to the actress [[Nadia Sibirskaïa]] who starred in several of his early films.
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Revision as of 22:07, 28 January 2022

Dimitri Kirsanoff
Born
Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan

6 March 1899 (1899-03-06)
Juryev, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (modern Tartu, Estonia)
Died11 February 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 (Russian: Димитрий Кирсанов, né Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan, Маркус Давид Зусманович Каплан;[1] 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.[2]

Early life

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan[1] on 5 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.[2]

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 "Raduraksti - Войти". www.lvva-raduraksti.lv.
  2. ^ a b David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, 1993. Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  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". 1895. Mille Huit Cent Quatre-Vingt-Quinze. Revue de l'Association Française de Recherche Sur l'Histoire du Cinéma (33). Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC): 229–242. June 2001. doi:10.4000/1895.95. Retrieved 2 March 2008.

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