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Early Russian Cinema

• French/foreign domination of film industry
• Extraordinarily popular medium
• 1909: 1200 theaters and 108 million viewers
• 1916 alone 160 million tickets sold
• Leading figures:
• Evgenii Bauer (1865-1917)
• The Dying Swan
• Decadent movement
• Yakov Protazanov (1881-1945)
• Ivan Mozzhukhin (a.k.a. Mosjoukine) (1890-1939)
• “Mozzhukhin style” of screen acting: communicate psychological states through expression and gesture

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