Dziga Vertov
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 3, 1896
- Died
- February 11, 1954 (aged 58)
- Birthplace
- Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
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
Man with a Movie Camera
Kino-Eye
Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas
Three Songs About Lenin
A Sixth Part of the World
Soviet Toys
The Eleventh Year
Kino-Pravda No. 1
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Stride, Soviet!
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
Filmography
For You at the Front!
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In the Area of Height A
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Three Heroines
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Lullaby
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In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
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Three Songs About Lenin
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Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas
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Sound team program No 2
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Man with a Movie Camera
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The Eleventh Year
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Stride, Soviet!
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A Sixth Part of the World
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Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
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Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
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Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
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Kino-Eye
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Soviet Toys
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Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
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Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
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Our Response to the Gloatings of the Capitalist World
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Kino-Pravda No. 17
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Kino-Pravda No. 15
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Give Us Air!
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Goskinokalendar
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First May in Moscow
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Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
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Kino-Pravda No. 14
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Kino-Pravda No. 1
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Kino-Pravda No. 2
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Kino-Pravda No. 3
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Kino-Pravda No. 5
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Kino-Pravda No. 4
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Kino-Pravda No. 6
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Kino-Pravda No. 7
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Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
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Kino-Pravda No. 12
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Kino-Pravda No. 9
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Kino-Pravda No. 10
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Kino-Pravda No. 8
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Kino-Pravda No. 11
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The History of the Civil War
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The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
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The Brain of Soviet Russia
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Protsess Mironova
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Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
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Kino-Week No. 31
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Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1)
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Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2)
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Kino-Week No. 33
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Kino-Week No. 34
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Kino-Week No. 35
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Kino-week
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Anniversary of the Revolution
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Kino-Week No. 1
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Kino-Week No. 3
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Kino-Week No. 4
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Kino-Week No. 5
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Kino-Week No. 17
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Kino-Week No. 21
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Kino-Week No. 22
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Kino-Week No. 23
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Kino-Week No. 24
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Kino-Week No. 25
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Kino-Week No. 28
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Kino-Week No. 29
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