Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 03, 1896
Died
Feb 11, 1954
Place of Birth
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
Credits
73 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Return of Vertov
Self (archive footage)
Lluvia de jaulas
Thanks
Ziv Zero
In Memory Of
Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Characters
All Vertovs
(archive footage)
World Without a Game
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
Self (archive footage)
For You at the Front!
Director
In the Area of Height A
Director
Three Heroines
Screenstory
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Director
Lullaby
Screenstory
Three Songs About Lenin
Director
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
Director
Sound team program No 2
Director
Man with a Movie Camera
Director
The Eleventh Year
Director
A Sixth Part of the World
Director
Stride, Soviet!
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Director
Kino Eye
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
Director
Soviet Toys
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Director
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
Director
First May in Moscow
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Director
Goskinokalendar
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Director
Give Us Air!
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 12
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 9
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 5
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 4
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 3
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 2
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 1
Director
The History of the Civil War
Director
Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
Director