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Victor Tourjansky

{{Short description|Russian actor, screenwriter and film director}}

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| name = Victor Tourjansky

|native_name = {{nobold|Виктор Туржанский}}

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| birth_name = Вячеслав Константинович Туржанский

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|3|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|8|13|1891|3|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Munich, West Germany (now Germany)

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor

| years_active = 1913–1964

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Victor Tourjansky ({{langx|ru|Виктор Туржанский}} 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky ({{Langx|ru|Вячеслав Константинович Туржанский}}), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

Biography

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Born into a family of artists in Kiev, Tourjansky moved to Moscow in 1911, where he spent a year studying under Konstantin Stanislavski. He became involved with silent film and, two years later, made his first productions as a screenwriter and director on the eve of World War I. When the October Revolution broke out, he left and stayed in Yalta, which had not yet been taken by the Bolsheviks.

When the laws for the nationalisation of the cinema industry were applied to Crimea, he left with the Ermoliev film company and its actors for France, via Constantinople, in February 1920. He was accompanied by his wife, the actress Nathalie Kovanko. On arriving in Paris, he changed his birth name Viatcheslav, to Victor, which was more easily pronounceable for the French. He was the assistant to Abel Gance for the filming of his Napoléon (1927). He later worked for Universum Film AG in Germany, where he arrived during the 1930s and directed twelve films, of which several were officially honored by the Nazis (City of Anatol, Secret Code LB 17, Faded Melody, Enemies , and Orient Express).

Selected filmography

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External links

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  • {{IMDb name|869645}}
  • Christian Gilles, Le cinéma des années [trente, quarante, cinquante] par ceux qui l'ont fait, Paris : L'Harmattan, 2000. {{ISBN|978-2-7384-8951-7}}

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Category:Film directors from the Russian Empire

Category:Male actors from the Russian Empire

Category:People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism

Category:1891 births

Category:1976 deaths

Category:Male actors from Kyiv

Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany

Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France

Category:White Russian emigrants to Germany

Category:White Russian emigrants to France

Category:Russian male film actors

Category:Russian film directors

Category:Russian male silent film actors

Category:Film people from Kyiv