Fédote Bourgasoff

Born in Lokhvitsa, then part of the Russian Empire, he began his cinematic path as a still photographer before moving behind the camera with Iosif Ermolev’s firm, where he helped shoot Yakov Protazanov’s Father Sergius (1918). The upheaval of the Russian Revolution drove him to France, where he quickly became the leading cinematographer for the émigré-run Les Films Ermolieff, later Productions Alb… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources