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Victor Tourjansky


1891 - 1976

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The director Victor Tourjansky already entered the film business in 1913 where he first appeared as an actor in some Russian silent movies. To these works belong "Gore Sarry" (13), "Velikiy Magaraz" (15), "Poymet kto lyubit" (15) and "Ostrov sabveniya" (17).

When he went to France later he took part in few more movies as an actor like "La pocharde" (21), "La fille sauvage" (22) and "Nuit de carnaval" (22).

Only one year after his film debut as an actor Victor Tourjansky realised his first movie as a director with "Simfoniya syubvi i smerti" (14).
He soon became a demanded director in Russia and he shot numerous movies in the next years, among them "Zhenshchina vampir" (15), "Bratya Karamazovy" (15), "Idi za mnoi" (17), "Yvette" (17), "Rai bez Adama" (18) and "Irene Negludov" (19).

After the October revolution Victor Tourjansky could not stay in Russia any longer and he went to Paris where he not only was able to continue his film career as an actor but also as a director.
To his well-known movies as a director belong "L'ordonnance" (21), "Les contes de mille et une nuits" (21), "La riposte" (22), "Ce cochon do Morin" (24), "Le prince charmant" (25) und "Michel Strogoff" (26). Beside it he as a director assistant of Abel Gance for his monumental movie "Napoleon" (27).

Finally Victor Tourjansky came to the USA for a brief time where he took part in two movies. As a director assistant he was active for "Tempest" (28) with John Barrymore and Camilla Horn and as a director he shot "The Adventurer" (28) with Tim McCoy and Dorothy Sebastian.

Afte his return to Europe he not only continued his career as a director in France but also in Germany.
In the next years he realised many movies in Germany and France like "Wolga Wolga" (28), "Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler" (29), "L'aiglon" (31), "La bataille" (33), "Lex yeux noirs" (35), "Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Liebe" (35), "Stadt Anatol" (36), "Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna" (37) and "Nostalgie" (38).

From 1938 till the end of war he exclusively shot German-speaking movies, among them "Geheimzeichn LB 17" (38), "Der Blaufuchs" (38), "Feinde" (40), "Illusion" (41), "Tonelli" (43) and "Orient-Express" (44).

He was able to continue his film career after the war and he directed "Dreimal Komödie" (49), "Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte" (50), "Vom Teufel gejagt" (50), "Salto Mortale" (53), "Die Toteninsel" (55) and "Beichtgeheimnis" (57).

During the last years of his cinematical career he worked for France and Italy beside Germany. To these works belong "La venere di Cheronea" (57), "I battellierei del Volga" (59), "I cosacchi" (60), "Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff" (61), "Freddy und der Millionär" (61) and "Una regina per Cesare" (62).

Besides his activity as a director and actor Victor Tourjansky - who also used the pen name Arnaldo Genoino during his workings in Italy - he also wrote numerous screenplays.


Other movies from Victor Tourjansky (Director):
Velikiy Magaraz (15) Zagrobnaya skitalitsa (15) Syn strany gde tsarstvo mraka (15) Skazka morya (15) Poymet kto lyubit (15) Po trupak k schastyu (15) Lyubov pod maskoy (15) Kak Kubyshkin stal kinoaktyorom (15) Lyubov, shirokuyu, kak more vymestit ne mogut shizni berega (16) Ostrov sabveniya (17) Prazdnik nochi (17) Bal gospoden (18) Surogaty lyubvi (18) Skertso diavola (18) Obmanutaya Yeva (18) Grekh i iskuplenie (19) Le quinzième prélude de Chopin (22) Nuit de carnaval (22) Le chant de l'amour triomphant (23) Calvaire d'amour (23) La dame masquée (24) Der Herzog von Reichstadt (31) Le chanteur inconnu (31) Hôtel des étudiants (32) L'ordonnance (33) Volga en flammes (34) The Battle (34) La peur (36) Puits en flammes (37) Verklungene Melodie (38) Der Gouverneur (39) Eine Frau wie Du (39) Die keusche Geliebte (40) Die goldene Brücke (42) Liebesgeschichten (43) Si te hubieses casado conmigo (48) Der blaue Strohhut (49) Mutter sein dagegen sehr (51) Ehe für eine Nacht (53) Arlette erobert Paris (53) Morgengrauen (54) Königswalzer (55) Herz ohne Gnade (58) Erode il grande (59) La donna dei faraoni (60)

Writer:
Bratya Karamazovy (15) Bal gospoden (18) Surogaty lyubvi (18) Les contes de mille et une nuits (21) La quinzième prélude de Chopin (22) Le cant de l'amour triomphant (23) Calvaire d'amour (23) Ce cochon de Morin (24) La dame masquée (24) Michel Strogoff (26) Le chanteur inconnu (31) L'ordonnance (33) Volga en flammes (34) Les yeux noirs (35) Feinde (40) Illusion (41) Tonelli (43) Orient-Express (44) Il sole di Montecassino (45) Si te hubieses casado conmigo (48) Dreimal Komödie (49) Der blaue Strohhut (49) Vom Teufel gejagt (50) Die Toteninsel (55) Petersburger Nächte (58) Erode il grande (59) I battellierei del Volga (59) I cosacchi (60) Freddy und der Millionär (61)

Actor:
Obryv (13) Strahnaya mest (13) Zagrobnaya skitalitsa (15) Zhenshchina vampir (15) Syn strany gde tsarstvo mraka (15) Po trupak k schastyu (15) Kosy...skzochki...kosly... (17) Surogaty lyubvi (18) Grekh i iskuplenie (19)

Director-Assistant:
Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem (63) L'ultimo gladiatore (64)

Costume Designer:
Les contes de mille et une nuuits (21) Wolga Wolga (28)

Cutter:
Puits en flammes (37)

Producer:
Puits en flammes (37) 

 
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