Nikolai Toporkoff

Nikolai Toporkoff
Born	20 June 1885 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	20 June 1965 Paris, France
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1917-1954 (film)

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)

Bibliography

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

External links

• Nikolai Toporkoff at IMDb