Nikolai 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.

Known For

The Last Bolshevik

as Self - Russian film historian

Anna Karamazoff

The Bug Trainer

as Self - Russian film historian

The Return of Vertov

as Self

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.

Searching for the Lost Pochta

as Self - Russian film historian

We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation

as Himself