Nikolai Izvolov
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.
The Last Bolshevik
as Self - Russian film historianA documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the...
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Anna Karamazoff
as uncreditedThis film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of...
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Searching for the Lost Pochta
as Self - Russian film historianTravelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film...
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The Return of Vertov
as SelfThe film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It...
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The Bug Trainer
as Self - Russian film historianThe Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with...
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A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.
as uncreditedA two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 -...
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