Nikolai Toporkoff Explained

Nikolai Toporkoff
Birth Date:	20 June 1885
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russian Empire
Death Date:	20 June 1965
Death Place:	Paris, France
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1917-1954 (film)

Nikolai Toporkoff (1885–1965) was a Russian Empire-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.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The House of Mystery (1923)
• Le Brasier ardent (1923)
• The Masked Woman (1924)
• Heart of an Actress (1924)
• Prince Charming (1925)
• The Loves of Casanova (1927)
• Secrets of the Orient (1928)
• The Model from Montparnasse (1929)
• The Adjutant of the Czar (1929)
• Troika (1930)
• The White Devil (1930)
• Nights of Princes (1930)
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930)
• La Femme d'une nuit (1931)
• Suzanne (1932)
• Take Care of Amelie (1932)
• Sergeant X (1932)
• 600,000 Francs a Month (1933)
• Let's Touch Wood (1933)
• King of the Camargue (1935)
• The Mascot (1935)
• Rose (1936)
• In the Service of the Tsar (1936)
• The Red Dancer (1937)
• Ramuntcho (1938)
• Vidocq (1939)
• My Aunt the Dictator (1939)
• Camp Thirteen (1940)
• Those of the Sky (1941)
• The White Truck (1943)
• The Ménard Collection (1944)
• The Last Judgment (1945)
• Secret Documents (1945)
• The Eternal Husband (1946)
• Monsieur Grégoire Escapes (1946)
• Third at Heart (1947)
• The Crowned Fish Tavern (1947)
• Du Guesclin (1949)
• The White Squadron (1949)
• Chéri (1950)
• Agnes of Nothing (1950)
• Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
• My Seal and Them (1951)
• My Friend Oscar (1951)
• Alone in the World (1952)
• The Unfrocked One (1954)
• Leguignon the Healer (1954)

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Klossner p.64