Dimitri Kirsanoff
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-03-06 (58 years old)
Deathday
1957-02-11
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), whi...
Acting
Production
1926
as Director
1929
as Director
1934
as Director
1935
as Director
1951
as Director
1950
as Director
1955
as Director
1946
as Director
1946
as Writer
1950
as Director
1934
as Producer
1936
as Director
1926
as Writer
1936
as Director
1946
as Director
1950
as Writer
1951
as Writer
1956
as Director
1938
as Director
1938
as Writer
1938
as Director
1937
as Director
1928
as Director
1957
as Director
1953
as Director
1926
as Camera Operator
1926
as Editor
1926
as Producer
1927
as Writer
1927
as Director
1924
as Writer
1924
as Director
1938
as Writer
1937
as Writer
1935
as Director
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