Nicolas Kullmann
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Nicolas Kullmann was born in 1957 and graduated from Hull University in
Russian Studies. He is a fluent Russian, French and English speaker and
has extensive experience working on films having been introduced to the
industry by Polish director Christopher Zanussi. He started his career
working in the film archives of the BBC and then quickly moved into the
Camera department by way of Samuelsons Panavision Film Service. He
worked as an assistant cameraman in all areas of film including many
feature films: Turtle Diary (1985) with Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley, No
Surrender by Alan Bleesdale, Absolute Beginners, Mona Lisa, Shanghai
Surprise, Jewel of the Nile, Company of Wolves, The Bride. Since 1986
he has moved into the role of associate producer with Antelope Films
and from 1986-87 he worked on a major series for Turner Broadcasting
Systems called Portrait of the World USSR. He produced A Russia of
One's Own for Channel Four, a film set in New York, which follows the
return of an émigré family to the USSR. The film was selected as
Channel 4's sole entry to the Grand Prix d'Italia in 1988. Since then
he has worked with the BBC for their programming in conjunction with
the Millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church and for Peter Montagnon
of Antelope Films on a series called Global Conflicts which analysed
the conflict between the superpowers (made for WNET and Channel 13). In
1987 he set up Lara films and produced a 35mm feature length
dramatisation of the life of Boris Pasternak (1990) based on his novel Doctor
Zhivago featuring Robert Powell and Imogen Stubbs. It was made as a
co-production with WDR of West Germany, LWT (Lord Melvyn Bragg) and
Videofilm of the USSR. It was broadcast in twenty countries in 1990. In
1989 he produced part of a documentary shot in the Soviet Navy called
Blue Revolution, for HTV. He has also worked as a cameraman for
Signals, a Channel 4 arts programme documenting theatre life in Moscow,
and on Despatches Latvia. Recently he has worked as a cameraman and
associated producer on a six part series for the BBC called: Dressed to
Thrill a documentary series on the history of fashion as well as a
series called The New Russia. Member of the Guild of British Camera
Technicians, the New Producers Alliance, and the Royal Institute for
International Affairs.