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Nikolai Izvolov (b. 1962)

Alias:
Nikolai Anatolyevich Izvolov
Николай Анатольевич Изволов

Birthplace:
Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]

Born:
February 14, 1962

Biography from TheMovieDB

Nikolai Izvolov (born in 1962 – Kostroma, USSR) is a Russian film historian and cinema theorist, researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of the “lost” films. He's known by his reconstructions of Dziga Vertov's Anniversary of the Revolution (2018), The History of the Civil War (2021) and Man with a Movie Camera (2024). Author of the books Phenomenon of Film: History and Theory (2001) and Unknown Pages of Russian Avant-garde Cinema (2021). Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been teaching the course Practice of Work in Film Archives for students of the Film Studies department in VGIK (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). In 1992, he collaborated with Chris Marker on the Alexander Medvedkin’s biopic The Last Bolshevik. Together with Natasha Drubek-Mayer he developed a creative method of film reconstruction ‘Hyperkino’ and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov, Alexander Medvedkin and Lev Kuleshov: Lenin Kino-Pravda (1996); Stop Thief! (1998); The Story of Tit… or the Tale of the Large Spoon (2000); Engineer Prite’s Project (2001); Alcoholism and Its Consequences (2001); Dokhunda (2006).

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Archival Footage Coordinator:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta

Director:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

Idea:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

Other:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

Producer:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

Thanks:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2002  Dreams about Alfeoni
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

Writer:
1918  Anniversary of the Revolution
1921  The History of the Civil War
2002  Dreams about Alfeoni
2005  Сукровица
2014  Searching for the Lost Pochta
2024  The Return of Vertov

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