Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

January 3, 1896

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…

Known For

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Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

1929 · 1h 8m · Movie

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

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Anniversary of the Revolution

Anniversary of the Revolution

1918 · 1h 59m · Movie

The history of the October revolution told in images, starting from the uprising of 25 February up to the first anniversary of the revolution. The uprisings, the civil wars and the soviet life and leaders are shown in panoramic im...

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