Dziga Vertov
Directing
Born: January 3, 1896 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
Died: February 11, 1954 (aged 58)
Highest Rated
Biography
Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. The independent, exploratory style of Vertov influenced and inspired many filmmakers and directors. The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name. In 1960, Jean Rouch used Vertov's filming theory when making Chronicle of a Summer. His partner Edgar Morin coined Cinéma vérité term when describing the style, using direct translation of Vertov’s KinoPravda. The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.
Known for
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Kino Eye
1924
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
1930
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
A Sixth Part of the World
1926
Soviet Toys
1924
Kino-Pravda No. 1
1922
The Eleventh Year
1928
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
Photos (1)
Movies (2)
Self / Appearances (3)
Directing (43)
Man with a Movie Camera
Director
Three Heroines
Director
The History of the Civil War
Director
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Director
Anniversary of the Revolution
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Director
Kino Eye
Director
Soviet Toys
Director
Lullaby
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 3
Director
A Sixth Part of the World
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Director
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Director
In the Area of Height A
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Protsess Mironova
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
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Kino-Pravda No. 1
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Kino-Pravda No. 4
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Kino-Pravda No. 12
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Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Director
Kino-Week No. 1
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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
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For You at the Front!
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Kino-Pravda No. 6
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Kino-Pravda No. 9
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Stride, Soviet!
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Kino-Pravda No. 10
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Three Songs About Lenin
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Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
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Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
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Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
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Kino-Pravda No. 2
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Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
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Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
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Kino-Pravda No. 7
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The Eleventh Year
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Kino-Pravda No. 5
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Kino-Pravda No. 17
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Kino-Pravda No. 11
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Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
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The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
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Writing (12)
Man with a Movie Camera
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Three Heroines
Screenstory
The History of the Civil War
Original Film Writer
Anniversary of the Revolution
Original Film Writer
Kino Eye
Writer
Soviet Toys
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Lullaby
Screenstory
A Sixth Part of the World
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For You at the Front!
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Stride, Soviet!
Writer
Three Songs About Lenin
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The Eleventh Year
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Other Crew (7)
Ziv Zero
In Memory Of
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Editor
Lluvia de jaulas
Thanks
A Sixth Part of the World
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Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Title Designer
Stride, Soviet!
Editor
Three Songs About Lenin
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