Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
In 1906 he opened the A. Khanzhonkov Trading House (since 1912 - A. Khanzhonkov & K JSC), the first Russian company selling and renting foreign films. Since 1907, he began production of game productions and chronicles. One of the founders of Russian cinematography. Vladislav Starevich, Eugene Bauer, Petr Chardynin, Vera Kholodnaya, Ivan Mozhuhin, Vera Caralli, Vitold Polonsky, Ivan Perestiani and others. In 1920, he emigrated after the nationalization of film enterprises. He lived in Constantinople, Milan, Venice and other European cities. In 1922 he was elected honorary chairman of the Union of Russian Cinema Figures of Germany. In 1923, at the invitation of Rusfilm, he returned to the USSR, worked as a consultant in Goskino, head. production of "Proletkino". In 1926 he was arrested among others. However, they had extra opportunities to work in professions. Rehabilitated in 1934. In the same year, in connection with the 15th anniversary of Soviet cinema, he received a personal state award. The author of memoirs published in the book "The First Years of Russian Cinematography" (1937) and other publications; essays published in the 1960s. He died on September 26, 1945 in Yalta, in poverty and complete oblivion.
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Movies (85)
Glumov's Diary
1923 · Producer
Zakopano Blago
1919 · Director
Boulevard Slush
1918 · Producer
Miss Meri
1918 · Producer
Dream And Life
1918 · Producer
Engineer Prite's Project
1918 · Producer
Twilight
1917 · Producer
Assassination Attempt on the Governor
1917 · Producer
Annushka's Case
1917 · Producer
The Alarm
1917 · Producer
A Revolutionary
1917 · Producer
A Woman’s Truth
1917 · Producer
The Dying Swan
1917 · Producer
In the Land of Love
1917 · Producer
Nelly Raintseva
1916 · Producer
Nina
1916 · Producer
Black Rocks Legend
1916 · Producer
The Retribution
1916 · Producer
Another's Soul
1916 · Producer
Гриф старого борца
1916 · Producer
Lina's Adventure in Sochi
1916 · Producer
The Moon Beauty
1916 · Producer
Bronskiy Sisters
1916 · Producer
Сказка синего моря
1916 · Producer
Mysterious World
1916 · Producer
Who Ruined This Life?
1916 · Producer
A Life for a Life
1916 · Producer
Human Abysses
1916 · Producer
Ямщик, не гони лошадей
1916 · Producer
Yuriy Nagorniy
1916 · Producer
The Puppets of Fate
1916 · Producer
Mirages
1916 · Producer
After Death
1915 · Producer
The Happiness of Eternal Night
1915 · Producer
Love of a State Councillor
1915 · Producer
Burnt Wings
1915 · Producer
Daydreams
1915 · Producer
From Crime to Crime
1915 · Producer
Children of the Age
1915 · Producer
Soul Mates
1915 · Producer
Leon Drey
1915 · Producer
The 1002nd Ruse
1915 · Producer
The Pearl Necklace
1915 · Producer
Idols
1915 · Producer
Natasha Rostova
1915 · Producer
Song of Triumphant Love
1915 · Producer
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
1914 · Producer
Do You Remember?..
1914 · Producer
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
1914 · Producer
Wicked Night
1914 · Producer
The Child Of Science
1914 · Producer
Cold Souls
1914 · Producer
Mysterious Someone
1914 · Producer
Chrysanthemums
1914 · Producer
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
1914 · Producer
Life in Death
1914 · Producer
Her Heroic Feat
1914 · Producer
Silent Witnesses
1914 · Producer
Tears
1914 · Producer
Child of the Big City
1914 · Producer
Only Once a Year
1914 · Producer
Khaz-Bulat
1913 · Producer
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
1913 · Producer
The Little House in Kolomna
1913 · Producer
Sorrows of Sarah
1913 · Producer
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
1913 · Producer
A Terrible Revenge
1913 · Producer
The Cameraman's Revenge
1912 · Producer
The Man
1912 · Producer
The Spring's Stream
1912 · Producer
The In-Law
1912 · Producer
A Trip to the Moon
1912 · Producer
Defence of Sevastopol
1911 · Director, Writer, Producer
In A Lively Place
1911 · Producer
Vadim
1910 · Producer
Mermaid
1910 · Producer
At Midnight in the Graveyard
1910 · Producer
Boyarin Orsha
1910 · Producer
Viy
1909 · Producer
The Enchantress
1909 · Producer
Vanka the Steward
1909 · Producer
A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding
1909 · Producer
Marriage
1909 · Producer
Dead Souls
1909 · Producer
Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow
1908 · Producer
