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Dimitri Kirsanoff

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 6, 1899 (127 years old)

Place of Birth
Tartu, Estonia

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Biography

Dimitri Kirsanoff (Russian: Дими́трий Кирса́нов) was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan in Tartu (then Juryev), Estonia, then Russian Empire in 1899 to Lithuanian Jewish parents. In the early 1920s he moved to Paris and became involved in cinema through playing cello in the orchestra at showings. He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company. Kirsanoff was at the forefront of Parisian avant-garde filmmaking thanks to works such as Ménilmontant (1926), which combined soviet style montage with hand-held camerawork and lyrically composed static shots. Kirsanoff's early silent films, many starring his first wife Nadia Sibirskaia, are considered his best works. With the coming of sound the quality of his output declined, though he continued to direct commercial ventures into the 1950's. He was married to the actress Nadia Sibirskaïa who starred in several of his early films. His second marriage was to editor Monique Kirsanoff.

Known For

Directing

1957Miss Catastrophe...Director
1956Tonight the Skirts Fly...Director
1955Le Crâneur...Director
1953The Midnight Witness...Director
1951Death of a Stag...Director
1950Backward Season...Director
1950Various Facts About Paris...Director
1946Sunless Neighborhood...Director
1946Two Friends...Director
1938The Midnight Airplane...Director
1938The Most Beautiful Girl in the World...Director
1937Franco de port...Director
1936Young Girl in the Garden...Director
1936The Fountain of Arethusa...Director
1935Scrupule...Director
1934The Kidnapping...Director
1931The Cradles...Director
1929Autumn Mists...Director
1928Sables...Director
1927Destin...Director
1926Ménilmontant...Director
1924Irony of Fate...Director

Writing

1951Death of a Stag...Writer
1950Backward Season...Writer
1946Sunless Neighborhood...Writer
1938The Midnight Airplane...Writer
1938The Most Beautiful Girl in the World...Writer
1937Franco de port...Writer
1927Destin...Writer
1926Ménilmontant...Writer
1924Irony of Fate...Writer

Production

1934The Kidnapping...Producer
1926Ménilmontant...Producer

Camera

1926Ménilmontant...Camera Operator

Editing

1926Ménilmontant...Editor

Acting

1924Irony of Fateas