Alexander Mishon is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer born on 1858 at Kharkiv (Ukraine)
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Birth 1858 at Kharkiv (
Ukraine)
Death 5 july 1921 (at 63 years) at Samara (
Russie)
Alexander Mishon (Russian: Александр Михайлович Мишон; born in Kharkiv – died 5 July 1921, near Samara) was a Russian photographer and cinematographer. Born to a French family in Kharkiv, he started his career as a photographer and owned a photo studio in his hometown. He later settled in Baku (nowadays capital of Azerbaijan) and lived there for 25 years. Here, in 1898, he shot his first films using a Lumiere cinematograph. Michon is widely regarded as the pioneer of Azerbaijani cinema.
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