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 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.
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Also Known As
Movies (50)
The Return of Vertov
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Lluvia de jaulas
Thanks (Crew)
2019
Ziv Zero
In Memory Of (Crew)
2017
Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Characters (Writing)
2009
All Vertovs
as (archive footage)
2002
World Without a Game
as Archive footage
1966
The Magic Beam
as Self (archive footage)
1963
For You at the Front!
Director (Directing)
1942
Three Heroines
Screenstory (Writing)
1938
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Director (Directing)
1937
Lullaby
Screenstory (Writing)
1937
Three Songs About Lenin
Director (Directing)
1934
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
Director (Directing)
1930
Sound team program No 2
Director (Directing)
1930
Man with a Movie Camera
Director (Directing)
1929
The Eleventh Year
Director (Directing)
1928
A Sixth Part of the World
Director (Directing)
1926
Stride, Soviet!
Director (Directing)
1926
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Director (Directing)
1925
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Director (Directing)
1925
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Director (Directing)
1925
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Director (Directing)
1924
Kino Eye
Director (Directing)
1924
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
Director (Directing)
1924
Soviet Toys
Director (Directing)
1924
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Director (Directing)
1924
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
Director (Directing)
1924
First May in Moscow
Director (Directing)
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Director (Directing)
1923
Goskinokalendar
Director (Directing)
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
Director (Directing)
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Director (Directing)
1923
Give Us Air!
Director (Directing)
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Director (Directing)
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 12
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 9
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 5
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 4
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 3
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 2
Director (Directing)
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 1
Director (Directing)
1922
The History of the Civil War
Director (Directing)
1921
Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda'
Director (Directing)
1919
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Director (Directing)
1919