Cinematography: Vladimir Nilsen

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Bezhin Meadow

1937 · Movie · 30 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Viktor Kartashov · Nikolai Khmelyov · Pyotr Arzhanov · Yekaterina Teleshova

Plot Eisenstein worked on Bezhin Meadow from 1935 to 1937. Based on a Turgenev story, the scenario for Bezhin Meadow was written by Isaac Babel. It's a tale that dramatizes the...

6.5

282 votes

6.5

282 votes

The Circus

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.1

24 votes

6.1

24 votes

Jolly Fellows

1934 · Movie · 96 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Leonid Utyosov · Lyubov Orlova · Mariya Strelkova · Yelena Tyapkina

Plot An ambitious but untalented singer Yelena mistakes Kostya, a simple shepherd for a famous jazz band leader. They attend a swank get-together, but instead of a saxophone, he brings his...

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Volga - Volga

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Igor Ilyinsky · Vladimir Volodin · Pavel Olenev · Sergei Antimonov

Plot "Volga-Volga", directed by Alexandrov (Eisenstein's cameraman in "Ten Days" and other Soviet classics), is perhaps the best of a series by him that provides a Russian echo of Busby Berkeley's...

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