Nikolai Izvolov
Birthday
1962/02/14 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]
Also know as
Nikolay Izvolov, Николай Анатольевич Изволов, Nikolai Anatolyevich Izvolov, Nikolay Anatolyevich Izvolov
Biography
Nikolai Izvolov is a Russian film historian and film scholar born in 1962 in Kostroma, USSR. He is the author of the Phenomenon of Film, History and theory (2001), and head of the department of the history of Russian cinema at the Cinema Art Institute in Moscow. In 1992, he collaborated with Chris Marker on the biopic of Alexander Medvedkin’s The Last Bolshevik. He developed a creative method of film reconstruction, ‘Hyperkino’ (together with Natasha Drubek-Mayer), and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov, Alexander Medvedkin, and Lev Kuleshov.
Acting
(2023) A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.
as ---
(2014) Searching for the Lost Pochta
as Self - Russian film historian
(2009) The Bug Trainer
as Self - Russian film historian
(1991) Anna Karamazoff
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(1993) The Last Bolshevik
as Self - Russian film historian
(2024) The Return of Vertov
as Self
(2012) We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation
as Himself