An image from Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin, one of the productions that also features Nikolai Izvolov.
Nikolai Izvolov
February 14, 1962 — Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]
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.
