Viktor Tourjansky Net Worth is
$1.4 Million

Mini Biography

Viktor Tourjansky was a Russian film movie director who emigrated following the communist trend of 1917, and worked in France, Germany, USA, UK, and Italy. He was created Viacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhanski on March 4, 1891, in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (now Kiyiv, Ukraine). Examined painting and artwork background. In 1911 he transferred to Moscow and examined performing under Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. In 1912-1914, Tourjansky proved helpful for Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. He produced his film debut as an professional in ‘Tragedia pereproizvodstva’ (1912), and co-starred in ‘Brothers’ (1913) by movie director Pyotr Chardynin, and in a number of other silent movies. From 1914-1919 he proved helpful in Yalta for Joseph N. Ermolieff, owner of 1 of the very most effective Russian silent-film businesses. In those days Tourjansky aimed over twenty silent movies in Russia. Tourjansky suffered terribly from the increased loss of his property following the Communist Trend of 1917. Nevertheless, he continued employed in Yalta with Ermolieff before end of 1919. However when the Crimson Military advanced in Crimea and reached Yalta, he became a member of the Light Russians and fled the communist Russia by the end from the Civil Battle. Tourjansky were able to save several rolls of his silent movies, which he had taken aboard the Greek machine “Pantera” in Feb of 1920. He still left Russia regarding his film companions in the Ermolieff film firm, stars Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nicolas Koline and Nicolas Rimsky, celebrity Nathalie Lissenko, his wife Nathalie Kovanko, cinematographer Nikolai Toporkoff and manufacturer Joseph N. Ermolieff. They emigrated jointly to Paris, France, and began a Russian-French film firm. In Paris, Tourjansky changed his initial name to Viktor (Victor) and ongoing his collaboration with Russian producers Alexandre Kamenka and Joseph N. Ermolieff. During 1920s and 1930s he also collaborated with manufacturer Gregor Rabinovitch and aimed films for several French, United kingdom, and German studios. Tourjansky frequently filmed his wife, Russian celebrity Nathalie Kovanko. She starred in fourteen of his movies manufactured in Russia and European countries. Ultimately Tourjansky separated from Nathalie Kovanko, and afterwards she returned towards the Soviet Union. Bethween WWI and WWII, Tourjansky directed over thirty France, Uk, American, and Franco-German motion pictures. He collaborated with movie director Abel Gance over the innovative film Napoleon (1927). In 1927 Tourjansky found Hollywood. There, from 1927 – 1930, he proved helpful in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios where he re-united along with his previous instructor, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who stopped at from Russia. Tourjansky was co-director from the Academy Award-winning film Tempest (1928), albeit he was uncredited. In Hollywood Tourjansky was employed to immediate After Midnight (1927), but he questioned the skill of Norma Shearer, talking about how the “Queen of MGM” got a cross-eyed stare, without realizing that she was going to marry Irving Thalberg, the effective MGM maker. Tourjansky was terminated from the task, and was delivered to co-direct a traditional western, The Adventurer (1928), on area in the inhospitable Mohave Desert. After he experienced for many weeks employed in the sandy, windy, and sizzling hot desert, and coping with nerve-wrecking logistical complications, Tourjansky didn’t achieve the effect he wished for the film. He became disillusioned and dissatisfied, rather than wanted to immediate another Hollywood film. Back Paris, Tourjansky opened his very own workplace and re-established himself among the French-Russian film community. He was tirelessly wooing traders for his brand-new projects, marketing among intellectuals and entrepreneurs of most backgrounds, including well-known Russian émigrés in Paris, such as for example Aleksandr Kuprin and Yevgeni Zamyatin, aswell as French, German, and United kingdom producers. Ultimately his persistence and dedication produced successful outcomes. In 1931, Tourjansky noticed then unfamiliar 21-year-old Simone Simon for the terrace from the Café de la Paix. He produced her a popular celebrity after their 1st film collectively, Le chanteur inconnu (1931) (The Unfamiliar Vocalist 1931). Tourjansky and Simon worked well together once again in Les yeux noirs (1935). In 1936 he was hired by UFA-Film and moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg, then to Munich, Bavaria. There he worked well for the others of his existence as film movie director and maker. Tourjansky made achievement using the Blue Fox (1938) (The Blue Fox 1938), a humor starring Swedish celebrity Zarah Leander, who was simply rumoured to be always a Soviet-controlled agent and a mistress of Adolf Hitler. Tourjansky himself got several personal conferences using the Reichskanzler through the past due 1930s, and was summoned to create several propaganda movies, such as for example Feinde (1940). As a result his status among the cosmopolitan film community got suffered. Following the Second World War, he lived in Munich, and worked well for various film studios with various effects. His last film manufactured in the Nazi Germany, a legal crisis Orient-Express (1944), premiered after the battle. In 1950, he aimed Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte (1950) (THE PERSON Who Wished to Live Double 1950), a film starring the well-known Russian émigré celebrity Olga Tschechowa. Afterwards Tourjansky aimed period epic movies, such as for example Herod the fantastic (1959), Prisoner from the Volga (1959), The Cossacks (1960), as well as the Pharaohs’ Girl (1960), a few of which were regarded among his better functions. Through the 1950s and 1960s he was wintering in Italy and proved helpful there as manufacturer and writer beneath the creative name Arnaldo Genoino. Viktor Tourjansky passed away on August 13, 1976, in Munich, Germany.

Known for movies