Nikolai Izvolov

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The Return of Vertov TrailerA History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. TrailerSearching for the Lost Pochta Trailer

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.

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Anniversary of the Revolution Trailer (1918)

07 November 1918

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.

The Bug Trainer Trailer (2009)

20 February 2009

The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation directors to help us understand why he is considered one of the greatest creators of the animation world.

Dreams about Alfeoni Trailer (2002)

30 April 2002

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen .

The History of the Civil War Trailer (1921)

01 June 1921

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion.

The Last Bolshevik Trailer (1994)

21 October 1994

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.

Anna Karamazoff Trailer (1991)

01 May 1991

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.

Searching for the Lost Pochta Trailer (2014)

09 December 2014

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon.

We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation Trailer (2012)

08 April 2012

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. Trailer (2023)

10 March 2023

A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw.

The Return of Vertov Trailer (2024)

19 April 2024

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life.