Nikolai Izvolov

Historian and cinema theorist, Russia.

is a Russian historian and cinema theorist, researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of “lost” films. 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 of VGIK. He is also the author of the books “The Phenomenon of Cinema. History and Theory” (2012) and “Unknown Pages of Russian Avant-garde Cinema” (2021).

Filmography: Anniversary of the Revolution, 2018; The History of the Civil War, 2021.