Direction: Dimitri Kirsanoff

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Nadia Sibirskaïa · Yolande Beaulieu · Guy Belmont · Jean Pasquier

Synopsis Kirsanoff's best known work is Ménilmontant (1926), which takes its name from the Paris neighborhood of the same name. The film is a silent, but does not contain any intertitles. It begins with a flurry of quick close-up shots depicting...

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Geymond Vital · Dita Parlo · Nadia Sibirskaïa · Joe Alex

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Nadia Sibirskaïa

Synopsis Brumes d’Automne is a cinematic poem – an astounding, lyrical and avant-garde oeuvre wherein Kirsanoff gets hold of the titanic task of capturing the melancholy, nostalgia, hope and hopelessness of human inner sentiments. Nadia Sibirskaia (Kirsanoff’s first wife and his...

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Gilliane Sarno · Pierre Lobreau

Synopsis A married couple lives in a remote cabin deep in the forest. He is a woodcutter. She remains alone all day long performing the daily chores. Boredom has set in. He is a silent taciturn man who devotes himself to...

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Ninon Vallin

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Synopsis Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanoff’s alternative titled La mort du cerf and Une chasse à courre (A Hunt), from France, is a post-Second World War study of a traditional hunt. The pursuit of a stag finds a cross-cutting parallel in the...

Direction Dimitri Kirsanoff

Cast Marina Vlady · Raymond Pellegrin · Dora Doll · Paul Frankeur

Synopsis Betty Bell, a dancer, is found dead in a phone cabin of a night club called "Le Toboggan". Everything accuse her lover, Philippe, a former stuntman. His revolver is found in the club and witnesses say that he was quite...