Dziga Vertov

Known for DirectingBorn 1896-01-03Died 1954-02-11Bialystok, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Ziv Zero

Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

In the Area of Height A

Three Heroines

For You at the Front!

The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh

Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda'

Man with a Movie Camera

Give Us Air!

Goskinokalendar

Lluvia de jaulas

Protsess Mironova

Anniversary of the Revolution

Kino Eye

Lullaby

A Sixth Part of the World

Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas

Kino-week

Stride, Soviet!

Three Songs About Lenin

Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel

The Return of Vertov

Kino-Pravda No. 12

The Eleventh Year

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

Kino-Pravda No. 9

The Brain of Soviet Russia

Kino-Pravda No. 8

Kino-Pravda No. 10

Kino-Pravda No. 7

Kino-Pravda No. 14

In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

Kino-Pravda No. 1

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

Soviet Toys

Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

Kino-Pravda No. 17

First May in Moscow

Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution

Kino-Pravda No. 2

Sound team program No 2

Kino-Pravda No. 15

Kino-Pravda No. 5

Kino-Pravda No. 6

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

Kino-Pravda No. 3