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Cause of death
  
Heart attack

Occupation
  
film director


Name
  
Dimitri Kirsanoff

Role
  
Filmmaker

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Full Name
  
Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan

Born
  
6 March 1899
Juryev, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire(modern Tartu, Estonia)

Nationality
  
Russian (Latvian or Estonian)

Died
  
February 11, 1957, Paris, France

Education
  
Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris

Movies
  
Menilmontant, Autumn Mists, La Fontaine D'arethuse, Walk Into Paradise

Spouse
  
Noella Bessette (m. ?–1957), Nadia Sibirskaia

Similar People
  
Nadia Sibirskaia, Marcello Pagliero, Chips Rafferty

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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.

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Ménilmontant (1926, Dimitri Kirsanoff) - music: Yegor Zabelov accordion.


Early life

Dimitri Kirsanoff Menilmontant Dimitri Kirsanoff Sound Composition for

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan (Маркус Давид Зусманович Каплан) 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. He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company.

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He was married to the actress Nadia Sibirskaïa who starred in several of his early films.

Filmography

Dimitri Kirsanoff Aside Format Screen Shadows Group

  • 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)

    • References

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