Nikolai Ekk

Nikolai Ekk (1902-1976), whose real name was Ivakin, was born in Riga on 14 June 1902. He trained in Moscow in a drama workshop and then at Meyerhold's theatre, where he was an actor and assistant. Moving into cinema, he directed the first sound film in the Soviet Union, then, in 1936, the first Soviet colour feature film. He afterwards made only a few films, until the end of the 1960s, and died in Moscow on 14 July 1976.

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• CinemaRoad to LifeПутёвка в жизньNikolai Ekk · 1931Cinema