Alexandre Volkoff (

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Александр Александрович Волков,

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Volkov, 1885–1942) was a Russian

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, and

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. Aleksandr Volkov established his film career in Russia, and was one of a significant number of film artists who fled Russia following the Bolshevik takeover.Phillips p.39 The bulk of his output was in France where he was known as Alexandre Volkoff. He also made films in

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and later

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. He directed several films starring his fellow Russian exile

Ivan Mozzhukhin Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin ( rus, Иван Ильич Мозжухин, p=ɪˈvan ɨˈlʲjitɕ mɐˈʑːʉxʲɪn; —18 January 1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor. Career in R ...

Selected filmography

Director

Features unless otherwise specified: * '' The Fugitive'' - a

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, Russia, France * ''The Green Spider'' (1916) - a

, Russia * '' Father Sergius'' (1917) - co-director, Russia * ''

People Die for Metal ''People Die for Metal'' (russian: Люди гибнут за металл) is a 1919 silent film directed by Alexandre Volkoff. Plot The film tells about a millionaire Gornostaev and ballerina Ilona, who cannot agree on the opinion what is mor ...

'' (1919) - Russia * '' The House of Mystery'' (1923) - France * '' Les Ombres qui passent'' (1924) - France * '' Kean'' (1924) - France * '' The Loves of Casanova'' (1927) - France * '' Secrets of the Orient'' (1928) - France * ''

The White Devil ''The White Devil'' (full original title: ''The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan'') is a tragedy by English playwright John We ...

'' (1930) - Germany * '' Stjenka Rasin'' (1936) - Germany * ' (1941) - Italy

Screenwriter

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Heart of an Actress ''Heart of an Actress'' (French: ''Âme d'artiste'') is a 1924 French silent drama film directed by Germaine Dulac and starring Iván Petrovich, Nicolas Koline and Mabel Poulton. Poulton had almost been cast in Abel Gance's ''Napoleon'', but af ...

'' (1924, dir.

Germaine Dulac Germaine Dulac (; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early chil ...

) - France

References

Bibliography

* Phillips, Alastair. '' City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris, 1929-1939''. Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

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