Nikolai Izvolov

Nikolai Izvolov (1962, Kostroma, USSR) is a film historian and film scholar. 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. He collaborated with Chris Marker on the biopic of Alexander Medvedkin’s The Last Bolshevik, 1992. 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.

Born:

Feb 14, 1962 In Kostroma, USSR (Russia)

Movie/TV Credits:

5

First Appeared:

In the movie Anna Karamazoff 1991-05-01

Latest Project:

Movie A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. 2023-03-10