Nikolai Izvolov

Also Known 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.

Department: Production

Place of Birth: Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]

Birthday: February 14, 1962

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.
Searching for the Lost Pochta
The Bug Trainer
Anna Karamazoff
The Last Bolshevik
The Return of Vertov
We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation