Nikolai Izvolov
Birthday: 1962-02-14 Place of Birth: Kostroma, USSR (Russia)
Synopsis
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.
Acting
The Last Bolshevik
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
