Ivan Lochakoff
Ivan Lochakoff , also Alexandre Lochakoff , also known in Germany under the names Iwan Loschakoff and Alexander Loschakoff (* 1877 as Alexander Wladimirowitsch Loschakoff / Александр Владимирович Лошаков (Russian) in the Russian Empire ; † December 30, 1942 in France ) was a Russian Filchit in Russian, French and German film.
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Lochakoff, whose artistic work is closely connected to the exile cinema in France in the 20s and 30s, received his training in Tsarist Russia before the turn of the century. As chief architect of the production company Jossif Jermoliews, who called himself Joseph N. and Jacques N. Ermolieff in exile , Lochakoff was involved in leading pre-revolutionary film productions, including the highly regarded masterpiece Father Sergius .
As a result of the October Revolution , Lochakoff left with Ermolieff and in fact all the employees of the Jermoliew studio in the spring of 1919 via the Crimea, which was held by Belarusian units, and fled to Western Europe via Istanbul . The film people found a new home in Paris . While Ermolieff set up a new production company there, Lochakoff continued to work for his films. Ivan Lochakoff became chief designer of Ermolieff's new production company Films Albatros in Montreuil and designed the backdrops for the most important productions by exiled Russian film directors such as Viktor Tourjansky and Alexander Wolkoff . In them, the top star of tsarist cinema, Ivan Mosjukin , who also fled to the West from the Bolsheviks , took on the leading roles.
Lochakoff has also provided productions for French film avant- gardists twice : Germaine Dulac's artist blood and Jean Epstein's Le lion des mogols . Loschakoff reached his first career high point in 1927 with Wolkoff's monumental equipment film Casanova . Under the name of Alexander Loschakoff, the production designer also designed a number of German films from autumn of the same year, most of which were also directed by Wolkoff. Lochakoff's imaginative decorations for his German debut, Secrets of the Orient , were particularly praised .
In the mid-30s he was involved as artistic advisor and film architect in two feature-intensive historical and adventure films with Adolf Wohlbrück : The Czar's Courier and Port Arthur . Shortly after the occupation of France (1940), Lochakoff fled to Switzerland, where he found temporary employment in the local film industry, but soon returned to France. There he died at the age of 65 in the middle of the Second World War .
Filmography
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literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 71.
Web links
- Ivan Lochakoff in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Ivan Lochakoff at filmportal.de
- Biography (in Russian)
- Lochakoff on dommuseum.ru
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lochakoff, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lochakoff, Alexandre; Loschakoff, Ivan; Loschakoff, Alexander; Loschakoff, Alexander Wladimirowitsch (maiden name); Лошаков, Александр Владимирович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian film architect for Russian, French and German films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1942 |
| Place of death | France |