Dimitri Kirsanoff

Directing·Mar 6, 1899·Tartu, Estonia

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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.

Film	Credit
Miss Catastrophe1957 · Director	Director
Tonight the Skirts Fly1956 · Director	Director
Le Crâneur1955 · Director	Director
The Midnight Witness1953 · Director	Director
Death of a Stag1951 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Backward Season1950 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Various Facts About Paris1950 · Director	Director
SSunless Neighborhood1946 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Two Friends1946 · Director	Director
The Midnight Airplane1938 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World1938 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Franco de port1937 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Young Girl in the Garden1936 · Director	Director
The Fountain of Arethusa1936 · Director	Director
SScrupule1935 · Director	Director
The Kidnapping1934 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Cradles1931 · Director	Director
Autumn Mists1929 · Director	Director
SSables1928 · Director	Director
DDestin1927 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Ménilmontant1926 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Irony of Fate1924 · Actor, Writer, Director	Actor, Writer, Director