Dimitri Kirsanoff

Dimitri Kirsanoff
Born	Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan 6 March 1899 Juryev, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (modern Tartu, Estonia)
Died	11 February 1957 Paris, France
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	Russian (Latvian or Estonian)
Education	École Normale de Musique, Paris
Occupation	film director
Spouse(s)	Nadia Sibirskaïa Berthe Noëlla Bessette (later known as Monique Kirsanoff)

Dimitri Kirsanoff (Russian: Дими́трий Кирса́нов) (6 March 1899 – 11 February 1957) was an early filmmaker, considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film. He is known for his inexpensively made experimental films.

Kirsanoff was born Markus David Sussmanovitch Kaplan (Маркус Давид Зусманович Каплан) in Tartu (then Juryev), Estonia, then Russian Empire in 1899. In the early 1920s he moved to Paris and became involved in cinema through playing cello in the orchestra at showings. He began making films on his own, and never worked with a production company.

He was married to the actress Nadia Sibirskaïa who starred in several of his early films/

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