Dimitri Kirsanoff
| Dimitri Kirsanoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | 
Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan 6 March 1899 Juryev, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (modern Tartu, Estonia)  | 
| Died | 
11 February 1957 Paris, France  | 
| Cause of death | Heart attack | 
| Nationality | Russian (Latvian or Estonian) | 
| Education | École Normale de Musique, Paris | 
| Occupation | film director | 
| Spouse(s) | 
Nadia Sibirskaïa Berthe Noëlla Bessette (later known as Monique Kirsanoff)  | 
Dimitri Kirsanoff (Russian: Дими́трий Кирса́нов) (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] in Tartu (then Juryev), Estonia, then Russian Empire in 1899. In the early 1920s he moved to Paris and became involved in cinema through playing cello in the orchestra at showings.[3] 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 2 David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, 1993. Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
 - ↑
 - ↑ "Dictionnaire du cinéma français des années vingt". Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC). Retrieved 2008-03-02.
 
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