Dimitri Kirsanoff


Dimitri Kirsanoff was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.

Early life

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan on the 5th of March 1899 in Tartu, Estonia, then Russian Empire. 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.
He was married to the actress Nadia Sibirskaïa who starred in several of his early films.
In the early 1920s after moving to Paris (where he started to study at the

Filmography