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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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