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Nikolai Toporkoff

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Occupation
  
Cinematographer

Years active
  
1917-1954 (film)


Name
  
Nikolai Toporkoff

Role
  
Cinematographer

Born
  
20 June 1885
Moscow, Russian Empire

Died
  
June 20, 1965, Paris, France

Movies
  
The Loves of Casanova, Fanny, The Lame Devil, The Unfrocked One, Michel Strogoff

Similar People
  
Alexandre Volkoff, Pierre Billon, Victor Tourjansky, Leo Joannon, Marcel Dalio

Nikolai Toporkoff (1885–1965) was a Russian-born French cinematographer. Toporkoff fled his homeland following the 1917 Russian Revolution, moving to France where he shot around seventy films including the 1927 historical The Loves of Casanova.

Selected filmography

  • The House of Mystery (1923)
  • Heart of an Actress (1924)
  • The Loves of Casanova (1927)
  • Secrets of the Orient (1928)
  • The Model from Montparnasse (1929)
  • The White Devil (1930)
  • La Femme d'une nuit (1931)
  • Suzanne (1932)
  • Take Care of Amelie (1932)
  • 600,000 Francs a Month (1933)
  • Let's Touch Wood (1933)
  • Ramuntcho (1938)
  • Vidocq (1939)
  • Camp Thirteen (1940)
  • Alone in the World (1952)
  • The Unfrocked One (1954)

    • References

    Nikolai Toporkoff Wikipedia
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