Nikolai Izvolov
Known for
Producing
Born
February 14, 1962 (age 64)
Birthplace
Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]
Biography
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...
Best known work
The Last Bolshevik
1994
Anniversary of the Revolution
1918
Anna Karamazoff
1991
The History of the Civil War
1921
The Bug Trainer
2009
The Return of Vertov
2024
A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.
2023
Searching for the Lost Pochta
2014
We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation
2012
Dreams about Alfeoni
2002Filmography
2024
The Return of Vertovas Self - Russian film historian, Director, Writer
2023
A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.as Self - Russian film historian
2014
Searching for the Lost Pochtaas Self - Russian film historian, Idea, Writer, Archival Footage Coordinator
2012
We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animationas Self - Russian film historian
2009
The Bug Traineras Self - Russian film historian
2005
СукровицаWriter
2002
Dreams about AlfeoniThanks
1994
The Last Bolshevikas Self - Russian film historian
1991
1921
The History of the Civil WarArchival Footage Coordinator, Producer, Other
1918
Anniversary of the RevolutionArchival Footage Coordinator, Producer, Other