Nikolai Toporkoff

{{Short description|Russian Empire-born French cinematographer}}

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| birth_date = 20 June 1885

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian Empire

| death_date = 20 June 1965

| death_place = Paris, France

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| occupation = Cinematographer

| yearsactive = 1917-1954 (film)

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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.Klossner p.64

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on film and television. McFarland & Co, 2002.