Dziga Vertov
Known for: Directing
Born: January 3, 1896
Died: February 11, 1954
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
74 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
5.0
The Return of Vertov
2024
6.1
Lluvia de jaulas
2019
10.0
Ziv Zero
201710.0
Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
2009
NR
All Vertovs
2002
NR
World Without a Game
1966
NR
The Magic Beam
1963
9.0
For You at the Front!
1942
10.0
In the Area of Height A
1941
9.5
Three Heroines
19385.4
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
1937
6.5
Lullaby
1937
6.1
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
6.4
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
19305.0
Sound team program No 2
1930
7.8
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
5.9
The Eleventh Year
1928
6.6
A Sixth Part of the World
1926
6.3
Stride, Soviet!
1926
5.4
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925
4.9
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925
5.5
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924
6.7
Kino Eye
1924NR
Our Response to the Gloatings of the Capitalist World
1924
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
1924
5.4
Soviet Toys
1924
5.9
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924
NR
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
19245.3
First May in Moscow
1923
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 17
19237.8
Goskinokalendar
1923
6.2
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
1923
5.0
Kino-Pravda No. 15
19237.8
Give Us Air!
1923
5.6
Kino-Pravda No. 14
1923
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
1922
6.0
Kino-Pravda No. 12
1922
4.5
Kino-Pravda No. 11
1922
5.8
Kino-Pravda No. 10
1922
5.9
Kino-Pravda No. 9
1922
5.8
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922
5.7
Kino-Pravda No. 7
1922
5.0
Kino-Pravda No. 6
1922
5.0
Kino-Pravda No. 5
1922
4.7
Kino-Pravda No. 4
1922
4.8
Kino-Pravda No. 3
1922
5.1
Kino-Pravda No. 2
1922
5.5
Kino-Pravda No. 1
1922
4.3
The History of the Civil War
1921
8.0
Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
1919
5.9
The Brain of Soviet Russia
1919
8.1
The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 35
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 34
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 33
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1)
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2)
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 31
1919
7.0
Protsess Mironova
1919NR
Kino-Week No. 29
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 28
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 25
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 24
1918
6.8
Anniversary of the Revolution
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 23
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 22
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 21
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 17
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 5
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 4
1918NR
Kino-Week No. 3
1918
NR
Kino-Week No. 1
19186.4
Kino-week
1918