Directing · b. 1896 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire

Dziga Vertov

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 vérit...

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For You at the Front! 1942 In the Area of Height A 1941 Three Heroines 1938 Lullaby 1937 In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze 1937 Three Songs About Lenin 1934 Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas 1930 Sound team program No 2 1930 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 The Eleventh Year 1928 Stride, Soviet! 1926 A Sixth Part of the World 1926 Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story 1925 Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin 1925 Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda 1925 Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema 1924 Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean 1924 Kino Eye 1924 Soviet Toys 1924 Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda 1924 Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality 1924 Kino-Pravda No. 17 1923 Kino-Pravda No. 15 1923 Give Us Air! 1923 Goskinokalendar 1923 First May in Moscow 1923 Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel 1923 Kino-Pravda No. 14 1923 Kino-Pravda No. 1 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 2 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 3 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 5 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 4 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 6 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 7 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 12 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 9 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 10 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 8 1922 Kino-Pravda No. 11 1922 The History of the Civil War 1921 The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh 1919 The Brain of Soviet Russia 1919 Protsess Mironova 1919 Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda' 1919 Kino-Week No. 31 1919 Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1) 1919 Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2) 1919 Kino-Week No. 33 1919 Kino-Week No. 34 1919 Kino-Week No. 35 1919 Kino-week 1918 Anniversary of the Revolution 1918 Kino-Week No. 1 1918 Kino-Week No. 3 1918 Kino-Week No. 4 1918 Kino-Week No. 5 1918 Kino-Week No. 17 1918 Kino-Week No. 21 1918 Kino-Week No. 22 1918 Kino-Week No. 23 1918 Kino-Week No. 24 1918 Kino-Week No. 25 1918 Kino-Week No. 28 1918 Kino-Week No. 29 1918
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