Dziga Vertov
Directing · Born Jan 3, 1896 · Died Feb 11, 1954 (58) · 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 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
Directed
For You at the Front!
19429.0
In the Area of Height A
194110.0
Three Heroines
19389.5
Lullaby
19376.5
Three Songs About Lenin
19346.1
Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas
19306.4
Man with a Movie Camera
19297.8
The Eleventh Year
19286.0
A Sixth Part of the World
19266.7
Stride, Soviet!
19266.3
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
19255.4
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
19254.9
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
19255.5
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
19245.3
Kino-Eye
19246.7
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
19245.3
Soviet Toys
19245.4
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
19245.9
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
1924
Kino-Pravda No. 17
19235.3
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
19236.2
Kino-Pravda No. 15
19235.0
Kino-Pravda No. 14
19235.6
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
19225.3
Kino-Pravda No. 12
19226.0
Kino-Pravda No. 11
19224.5
Kino-Pravda No. 10
19225.8
Kino-Pravda No. 9
19225.9
Kino-Pravda No. 8
19225.8
Kino-Pravda No. 7
19225.7
Kino-Pravda No. 6
19225.0
Kino-Pravda No. 5
19225.0
Kino-Pravda No. 4
19224.7
Kino-Pravda No. 3
19224.8
Kino-Pravda No. 2
19225.1
Kino-Pravda No. 1
19225.5
The History of the Civil War
19214.4
Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
19198.0
The Brain of Soviet Russia
19195.9
The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
19198.1
Kino-Week No. 35
1919
Kino-Week No. 34
1919
Kino-Week No. 33
1919
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1)
1919
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2)
1919
Kino-Week No. 31
1919
Protsess Mironova
19197.0
Kino-Week No. 29
1918
Kino-Week No. 28
1918
Kino-Week No. 25
1918
Kino-Week No. 24
1918
Anniversary of the Revolution
19186.8
Kino-Week No. 23
1918
Kino-Week No. 22
1918
Kino-Week No. 21
1918
Kino-Week No. 17
1918
Kino-Week No. 5
1918
Kino-Week No. 4
1918
Kino-Week No. 3
1918
Kino-Week No. 1
1918
Kino-week
19186.4
