Nikolai Ekk

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Nikolai Ekk
Born	Nikolai Vladimirovich Ivakin (1902-06-14)14 June 1902 Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	14 July 1976(1976-07-14) (aged 74) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter

Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk (Russian: Николай Владимирович Экк), real name Ivakin (Russian: Ивакин) (14 June 1902 – 14 July 1976), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.

Born in Riga, he studied acting and directing in the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. He directed 4 films between 1931 and 1941, among which the first Soviet sound film Road to Life.

Filmography

Road to Life (Путёвка в жизнь) (1931)
Grunya Kornakova (Груня Корнакова) (1936)
The Fair of Sorochinsk (Сорочинская ярмарка) (1939)
Night of May (Майская ночь) (1941)

External links

Nikolai Ekk at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	VIAF: 121160586 ISNI: 0000 0000 8337 8324

Persondata
Name	Ekk, Nikolai
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter
Date of birth	1902-14-06
Place of birth	Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Date of death	1976-14-07
Place of death	Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)

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