Dimitri Kirsanoff

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1899-03-06

Deathday 1957-02-11 (57 years old)

Place of Birth Tartu, Estonia

Also Known As Дими́трий Кирса́нов, Dimitri Kirsanov, Димитрий Кирсанов, Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan

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

Director

1957
Miss Catastrophe

as Director

1956
1955
Le Crâneur

as Director

1953
1951
Death of a Stag

as Director

1950
Backward Season

as Director

1946
1946
Two Friends

as Director

1938
1937
Franco de port

as Director

1936
1936
1935
The Cradles

as Director

1935
Scrupule

as Director

1934
The Kidnapping

as Director

1929
Autumn Mists

as Director

1928
Sables

as Director

1927
Destin

as Director

1926
Ménilmontant

as Director

1924
L'Ironie du destin

as Director

Writer

1951
Death of a Stag

as Writer

1950
Backward Season

as Writer

1946
1938
1937
Franco de port

as Writer

1927
Destin

as Writer

1926
Ménilmontant

as Writer

1924

Producer

1934
The Kidnapping

as Producer

1926
Ménilmontant

as Producer

Editor

1926
Ménilmontant

as Editor

Camera

1926
Ménilmontant

as Camera Operator