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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.
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25 January 1957
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir.
10 May 1955
A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
01 January 1929
An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.
01 January 1936
“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain.
01 January 1951
Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanoff’s film, alternatively titled Death of A Stag and Une chasse à courre, is a post-war study of a traditional stag hunt.
23 November 1934
Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home.
01 January 1946
The story closes in Paris in January 1871, at the height of the siege, and introduces the main character, Monsieur Morissot, a watchmaker who has enrolled in the National Guard.
02 January 1926
A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.
13 February 1953
Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing.
01 January 1931
Les Berceaux is about the dedicated sailors who venture out into the deepest ocean, and the wives who must await their return.
14 May 1937
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America.
19 July 1950
Full of hopes, the young Raymonde leaves her country life in north of France to work in Paris. She promises her first love, François, that she will return to marry him.
31 October 1946
In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are forced to leave home.
04 August 1938
During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals.
14 June 1956
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer.
03 August 1938
An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.
04 November 1936
Impressionist performance of a ballet dancer to the music of Federico Mompou.
13 November 1950
A woman waits for her husband, a woodcutter, during long lonely days. She becomes weary and leaves him to live with her sister.
