Ivan Mosjoukine

Ivan Mosjoukine

Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor, writer and director. Born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), Ivan Mozzhukhin was the youngest of four brothers. His mother Rachel Ivanovna Mozzhukhina (née Lastochkina) was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, while his father Ilya Ivanovich Mozzhukhin came from peasants and served as an estate manager for the noble Obolensky family. While all three elder brothers finished seminary, Ivan was sent to the Penza gymnasium for boys and later studied law at the Moscow State University. In 1910, he left academic life to join a troupe of traveling actors from Kiev, with which he toured for a year, gaining experience and a reputation for dynamic stage presence. Upon returning to Moscow, he launched his screen career with the 1911 adaptation of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Mosjoukine's most lasting contribution to the theoretical concept of film as image is the legacy of his own face in recurring representation of illusory reactions seen in Lev Kuleshov's psychological montage experiment which demonstrated the Kuleshov Effect. In 1918, the first full year of the Russian Revolution, Kuleshov assembled his revolutionary illustration of the application of the principles of film editing out of footage from one of Mosjoukine's Tsarist-era films which had been left behind when he, along with his entire film production company, departed for the relative safety of Crimea in 1917. At the end of 1919, Mosjoukine arrived in Paris and quickly established himself as one of the top stars of the French silent cinema, starring in one successful film after another. Handsome, tall, and possessing a powerful screen presence, he won a considerable following as a mysterious and exotic romantic figure. Mosjoukine's film stardom was assured and during the 1920s, his face with the trademark hypnotic stare appeared on covers of film magazines all over Europe. He wrote the screenplays for most of his starring vehicles and directed two of them, L'Enfant du carnaval (Child of the Carnival), released on 29 August 1921 and Le Brasier ardent (The Blazing Inferno), released on 2 November 1923. The leading lady in both films was the then-"Madame Mosjoukine", Nathalie Lissenko. Brasier, in particular, was highly praised for its innovative and inventive concepts, but ultimately proved too surreal and bizarre to become financially successful. Ivan Mosjoukine died of tuberculosis in a Neuilly-sur-Seine clinic. All available sources give his age as 49 and year of birth as 1889. However, his gravestone at the Russian cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois is inscribed with the year 1887.

  • Title: Ivan Mosjoukine
  • Popularity: 1.664
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-09-26
  • Place of Birth: Kondol, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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  • Also Known As: Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Ivan Mosjoukin, Ivan Mosjukin, Ivan Mosjukine, Ivan Moskine, Ivan Mozhukhin, Iwan Mosschuchin, Ivan Mozukin, Ivan Mozzhuhin
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Ivan Mosjoukine Movies

  • 1919
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    Kuleshov Effect

    Kuleshov Effect

    6.4 1919 HD

    An experiment in editing.

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  • 1916
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    And The Song Remained Unfinished

    And The Song Remained Unfinished

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1915
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    Me And My Conscience

    Me And My Conscience

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    Nikolay Stavrogin

    Nikolay Stavrogin

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1915
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    Vanyushin's Children

    Vanyushin's Children

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1998
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    Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child

    Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child

    1 1998 HD

    The brilliant and dramatic fate of the great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, who became a star of French cinema, against the background of the life of...

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  • 1936
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    Nitchevo

    Nitchevo

    1 1936 HD

    A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about...

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  • 1934
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    L'enfant du carnaval

    L'enfant du carnaval

    1 1934 HD

    A desperate mother abandons her child on the door step of a playboy.

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  • 1934
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    Casanova

    Casanova

    1 1934 HD

    Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in...

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  • 1919
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    The Queen's Secret

    The Queen's Secret

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1912
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    Worker's Quarters

    Worker's Quarters

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Scary Corpse

    Scary Corpse

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Late Mathias Pascal

    The Late Mathias Pascal

    6.9 1925 HD

    Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

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  • 1927
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    Loves of Casanova

    Loves of Casanova

    6 1927 HD

    Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into...

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  • 1913
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    Khaz-Bulat

    Khaz-Bulat

    1 1913 HD

    Scenes from everyday life based on folk song. Made while filming "Conquest of the Caucasus".

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  • 1915
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    Idols

    Idols

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1924
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    The Lion of the Moguls

    The Lion of the Moguls

    6.7 1924 HD

    In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and...

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  • 1929
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    Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures

    Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures

    1 1929 HD

    George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo...

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  • 1923
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    The Burning Crucible

    The Burning Crucible

    6.7 1923 HD

    A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every...

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  • 1924
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    Les Ombres Qui Passent

    Les Ombres Qui Passent

    1 1924 HD

    Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924

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  • 1914
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    Chrysanthemums

    Chrysanthemums

    5 1914 HD

    A tragic story of a ballerina.

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  • 1914
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    Woman of Tomorrow

    Woman of Tomorrow

    5 1914 HD

    A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a...

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  • 1920
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    A Narrow Escape

    A Narrow Escape

    5.7 1920 HD

    The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to...

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  • 1916
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    Beggar Woman

    Beggar Woman

    5 1916 HD

    A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.

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  • 1917
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    Satan Triumphant

    Satan Triumphant

    6.8 1917 HD

    Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the...

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  • 1918
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    Knight's Spirit

    Knight's Spirit

    5.8 1918 HD

    A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.

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  • 1914
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    Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

    Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

    5 1914 HD

    This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death...

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  • 1911
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    Defence of Sevastopol

    Defence of Sevastopol

    4.5 1911 HD

    First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and...

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  • 1915
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    Petersburg Slums

    Petersburg Slums

    1 1915 HD

    Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

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  • 1926
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    Michel Strogoff

    Michel Strogoff

    6.5 1926 HD

    Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across...

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  • 1912
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    The Peasants' Lot

    The Peasants' Lot

    5 1912 HD

    Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

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  • 1917
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    The Prosecutor

    The Prosecutor

    1 1917 HD

    Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speaking in court as a prosecutor, remains deaf to the...

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  • 1917
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    Behind the Screen

    Behind the Screen

    1 1917 HD

    Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the film survive.

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  • 1914
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    In the Hands of Merciless Fate

    In the Hands of Merciless Fate

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1921
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    Justice d'abord

    Justice d'abord

    1 1921 HD

    Directed by Yakov Protazanov.

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  • 1911
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    The Kreutzer Sonata

    The Kreutzer Sonata

    1 1911 HD

    Directed by Pyotr Chardynin.

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  • 1923
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    The House of Mystery

    The House of Mystery

    5 1923 HD

    An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around...

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  • 1979
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    Cinema in Russia

    Cinema in Russia

    4 1979 HD

    Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of...

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  • 1927
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    Surrender

    Surrender

    6 1927 HD

    Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is...

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  • 1930
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    The White Devil

    The White Devil

    7 1930 HD

    Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji...

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  • 1932
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    Sergeant X

    Sergeant X

    1 1932 HD

    A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather...

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  • 1913
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    The Night Before Christmas

    The Night Before Christmas

    5.1 1913 HD

    Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a...

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  • 1929
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    The Adjutant of the Czar

    The Adjutant of the Czar

    7.8 1929 HD

    Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.

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  • 1928
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    The Secret Courier

    The Secret Courier

    1 1928 HD

    A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".

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  • 1924
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    Kean

    Kean

    6.2 1924 HD

    By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the...

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  • 1912
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    The In-Law

    The In-Law

    5 1912 HD

    Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So,...

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  • 2024
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    What Is Sex?

    What Is Sex?

    1 2024 HD

    A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

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  • 1918
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    Father Sergius

    Father Sergius

    5.8 1918 HD

    The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.

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  • 1913
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    A Terrible Revenge

    A Terrible Revenge

    1 1913 HD

    A couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them.

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  • 1916
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    The Queen of Spades

    The Queen of Spades

    5.6 1916 HD

    While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred...

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  • 1911
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    The Brigand Brothers

    The Brigand Brothers

    4.8 1911 HD

    Based on the poem by Pushkin. A thief and his gang are at their camp next to the Volga River. He tells them of how his father died in a river, and...

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  • 1913
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    The Little House in Kolomna

    The Little House in Kolomna

    5.3 1913 HD

    Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she...

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  • 1916
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    Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

    Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

    1 1916 HD

    After a man's wife leaves him for a sculptor, his only comfort is a statue of his wife.

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  • 1910
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    At Midnight in the Graveyard

    At Midnight in the Graveyard

    1 1910 HD

    A group of young people made a bet, according to the terms of which they had to visit a cemetery at midnight.

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  • 1914
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    Life in Death

    Life in Death

    1 1914 HD

    A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.

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  • 1914
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    Wicked Night

    Wicked Night

    1 1914 HD

    A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.

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  • 1914
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    Mazepa

    Mazepa

    1 1914 HD

    Short film based on a poem by Julius Slovacki.

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  • 1913
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    Alcoholism and Its Consequences

    Alcoholism and Its Consequences

    1 1913 HD

    Alcoholism and its Ill-Effects was considered to be one of the most popular science propaganda (or educational) films produced in Russia before the...

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  • 1914
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    Mysterious Someone

    Mysterious Someone

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1916
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    Sin

    Sin

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1914
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    Her Heroic Feat

    Her Heroic Feat

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Child of the Carnival

    The Child of the Carnival

    1 1921 HD

    A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that...

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  • 1922
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    Tempêtes

    Tempêtes

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1923
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    Member Of Parliament

    Member Of Parliament

    2 1923 HD

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  • 1928
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    The President

    The President

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1913
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    Uncle's Apartment

    Uncle's Apartment

    5.2 1913 HD

    A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.

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  • 1918
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    Little Ellie

    Little Ellie

    1 1918 HD

    A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de...

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  • 1913
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    Sorrows of Sarah

    Sorrows of Sarah

    5 1913 HD

    This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both...

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  • 1911
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    In A Lively Place

    In A Lively Place

    1 1911 HD

    Based on the 1865 play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.

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  • 1913
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    Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

    Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

    1 1913 HD

    A significant part of the 1912 production "A Life for the Tsar" was used in this film.

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  • 1933
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    The 1002nd Night

    The 1002nd Night

    3 1933 HD

    An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.

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  • 1916
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    The Dagger Woman

    The Dagger Woman

    1 1916 HD

    Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees...

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  • 1914
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    Tomboy

    Tomboy

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1914
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    Do You Remember?..

    Do You Remember?..

    7 1914 HD

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  • 1914
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    The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

    The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1913
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    The Precipice

    The Precipice

    1 1913 HD

    Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon...

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  • 1916
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    In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

    In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

    1 1916 HD

    A man in love with a married woman plans to kill her husband. By mistake he kills her brother, and is haunted by the ghost of the murdered brother.

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  • 1917
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    Dance of Death

    Dance of Death

    1 1917 HD

    A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.

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  • 1916
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    Panna Meri

    Panna Meri

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1913
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    Brothers

    Brothers

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Spring's Stream

    The Spring's Stream

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Man

    The Man

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Burning Crucible

    The Burning Crucible

    6.7 1923 HD

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  • 1934
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    L'enfant du carnaval

    L'enfant du carnaval

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1920
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    A Narrow Escape

    A Narrow Escape

    5.7 1920 HD

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  • 1924
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    The Lion of the Moguls

    The Lion of the Moguls

    6.7 1924 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Burning Crucible

    The Burning Crucible

    6.7 1923 HD

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  • 1924
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    Kean

    Kean

    6.2 1924 HD

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  • 1916
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    Sin

    Sin

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1921
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    Justice d'abord

    Justice d'abord

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1923
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    The House of Mystery

    The House of Mystery

    5 1923 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Child of the Carnival

    The Child of the Carnival

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1921
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    The Child of the Carnival

    The Child of the Carnival

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1924
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    Les Ombres Qui Passent

    Les Ombres Qui Passent

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1922
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    Nuit de carnaval

    Nuit de carnaval

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1927
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    Loves of Casanova

    Loves of Casanova

    6 1927 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Burning Crucible

    The Burning Crucible

    6.7 1923 HD

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  • 1924
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    Kean

    Kean

    6.2 1924 HD

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