Nikolai Ekk

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter}}

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|caption = Nikolai Ekk on 2002 Russian stamp

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| name = Nikolai Ekk

| birthname = Nikolai Vladimirovich Ivakin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1902|06|14}}

| birth_place = Riga, Russian Empire
(now Latvia)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1976|07|14|1902|06|14}}

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union
(now Russia)

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| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter

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Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk ({{langx|ru|Николай Владимирович Экк}}; 14 June 1902 – 14 July 1976) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. "Ekk" was in fact a pseudonym; his real surname was Ivakin ({{langx|ru|Ивакин}}).{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=210–211}}Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978) // 3rd edition. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia

Born in Riga, he studied acting and directing in the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. He directed six feature films between 1929 and 1967. Among them was the first Soviet sound film Road to Life and the first Soviet color motion picture film The Nightingale.