Nikolai Toporkoff

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Nikolai Toporkoff
Born20 June 1885
Died20 June 1965
OccupationCinematographer
Years active1917-1954 (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]

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  1. Klossner p.64

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