Desc: My First and Last Film: Directed by John Kolchak. With John Kolchak, Nicole Mitzel, Bernard van Maarseveen, Paul Wallfisch. In February 2001, aspiring filmmaker Johnny Zhivago was discovered dead in his Queens, New York apartment, a suicide by hanging. Also found was the strangled body of actress Nicole Mitzell, with whom he had a brief romantic affair. Further investigation of the crime scene uncovered approximately thirty hours of video footage Zhivago had been accumulating for the last six months of his life.