---
name: "Anatoli Nikiforov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anatoly-nikiforov"
fi1m_id: "anatoly-nikiforov"
imdb_id: "nm1162019"
tmdb_id: 1319238
wikidata_id: "Q95858708"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 February 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:01:16.377666+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anatoli Nikiforov

## Identity

Anatoli Nikiforov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anatoly-nikiforov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anatoly-nikiforov
- **IMDb ID:** nm1162019
- **TMDB ID:** 1319238
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95858708
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95858708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1319238

Writer. Born 22 February 1946.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 February 1946
- **Also known as:** Anatoly Nikiforov, Анатолий Никифоров
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95858708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162019/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1319238

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Russian Ark*](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md) (78)

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## Biography

Anatoli Nikiforov is a Russian screenwriter and writer. He is credited as co-writer, alongside Alexander Sokurov, on the 2002 film *Russian Ark*.

Nikiforov has also written for *I nichego bolshe* (1988) and *Khram* (1987). He worked as a script editor on several short films in the 1980s, including *Sovetskaya elegiya* (1990) and *Zhertva vechernyaya* (1987).

*Sources: imdb.com, web.archive.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Russian Ark* (2002), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Home* (2016), Actor
- *Geslo: The Disappeared Expedition* (2015), Writer
- *Russian Ark* (2002), Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md)
- *I Loved You* (2000), Producer
- *Maria* (1988), Production Supervisor
- *And Nothing More* (1987), Writer
- *Farmers* (1987), Story Editor

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