Mime Misu

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Mime Misu (born January 21, 1888 as Mişu Rosescu in Botoşani , Romania , † July 28, 1953 in Antwerp , Belgium ) was a Romanian actor , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Little and also very contradicting facts have come down to us from Misus Vita. According to an article in the Lichtbild-Bühne on January 3, 1914, he was born into a family of artists in the Romanian trading town of Botoșani. As a child he is said to have tried ballet and pantomime at the municipal theater in his hometown. He is said to have attended the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts, which he claims to have graduated with honors. During his studies he claims to have been assigned to the ensemble of the Royal National Theater. Later, Misu is said to have found employment at Romanian provincial theaters. In 1900 he is said to have come to Paris for the first time , where he claims to have appeared as a dancer and pantomime at the world exhibition . Later he also came to Berlin , Vienna , Budapest and London . In these cities, he assumed roles and also staged plays, according to his statements. Misu is also said to have made his debut as a film director in Paris.

When Mime Misu came to Berlin to work as a film director, according to his cameraman Emil Schünemann , he gave himself an “American biography” in order to find work for the German production company Continental-Kunstfilm. As a result, he was able to implement his most ambitious project in mid-1912: the cinematic retelling of the sinking of the RMS Titanic . The film was released in August 1912 under the title In Nacht und Eis and is considered the first Titanic film in history.

His last German film was made in 1913; Misu can only be identified again in 1915 when he staged a 65-minute melodrama with Ontmaskerd in the Netherlands . Then he disappeared from the public eye. From Copenhagen he finally embarked for New York, where Misu landed on October 27, 1915 on Ellis Island . His production of The Excentric Club was there in February 1914 under the title The Money God or Do Riches Bring Happiness? started. The last time you heard from him was in the early twenties , when he tried to gain a foothold again in German film with the self-made legend of a career as a successful Hollywood director. In the issues of Film-Kurier of March 2 and 8, 1921, a production company, Misugraph-Film Co., New York / Berlin, is reported, but it has not made any productions.

Filmography

  • 1912: Das Marienwunder (director, screenplay, actor)
  • 1912: In Nacht und Eis (director, screenplay, actor)
  • 1912: The Ghost of Clyde (Director, Screenplay, Actor)
  • 1913: The Excentric Club (director, screenplay, actor)
  • 1915: Ontmaskerd (director)

Web links

literature

  • Mime Misu. In: Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph . Lexicon for German-language films. 42. Delivery. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich April 2006.
  • Michael Wedel: Collision in the cinema. Mime Misu and the sinking of the "Titanic". Edition text + kritik, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86916-179-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misu short biography at the Babelsberg Film University
  2. ↑ Schünemann in an interview with Gerhard Lamprecht on January 6, 1956
  3. ↑ Misu in filmblatt.de (PDF; 4.5 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Misu, Mime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosescu, Mișu (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoșani , Romania
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1953
Place of death Antwerp , Belgium