Nikolai Toporkoff

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) 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)