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Dziga Vertov
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
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 influence…
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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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2024
The Return of Vertov
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Lluvia de jaulas
Movie Thanks
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2017
Ziv Zero
Movie In Memory Of
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2009
Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Movie Characters
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2002
All Vertovs
Movie (archive footage)
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1966
World Without a Game
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1963
The Magic Beam
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1942
For You at the Front!
Movie Director
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1941
In the Area of Height A
Movie Director
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1938
Three Heroines
Movie Screenstory
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1937
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Movie Director
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1937
Lullaby
Movie Screenstory
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1934
Three Songs About Lenin
Movie Director
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1930
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
Movie Director
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1930
Sound team program No 2
Movie Director
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1929
Man with a Movie Camera
Movie Director
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1928
The Eleventh Year
Movie Director
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1926
A Sixth Part of the World
Movie Director
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1926
Stride, Soviet!
Movie Director
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1925
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Movie Director
- 1925
- 1925
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1924
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Movie Director
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1924
Kino Eye
Movie Director
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1924
Our Response to the Gloatings of the Capitalist World
Movie Director
- 1924
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1924
Soviet Toys
Movie Director
- 1924
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1924
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
Movie Director
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1923
First May in Moscow
Movie Director
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Movie Director
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1923
Goskinokalendar
Movie Director
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
Movie Director
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Movie Director
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1923
Give Us Air!
Movie Director
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Movie Director
- 1922
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1922
Kino-Pravda No. 12
Movie Director
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1922
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Movie Director
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1922
Kino-Pravda No. 10
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