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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

Director · 1896–1954 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire

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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.

Directed 61

1940s

  1. 1942

    For You at the Front!

    Director

  2. 1941

    In the Area of Height A

    Director

1930s

  1. 1938

    Three Heroines

    Director

  2. 1937

    Lullaby

    Director

  3. 1934

    Three Songs About Lenin

    Director

    68
  4. 1930

    Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    Man with a Movie Camera

    Director

    88
  2. 1928

    The Eleventh Year

    Director

  3. 1926

    A Sixth Part of the World

    Director

  4. Stride, Soviet!

    Director

  5. 1925

    Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

    Director

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

    Director

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

    Director

  8. 1924

    Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

    Director

  9. Kino-Eye

    Director

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

    Director

  11. Soviet Toys

    Director

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

    Director

  13. Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema

    Director

  14. 1923

    Kino-Pravda No. 17

    Director

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

    Director

  16. Kino-Pravda No. 15

    Director

  17. Kino-Pravda No. 14

    Director

  18. 1922

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

    Director

  19. Kino-Pravda No. 12

    Director

  20. Kino-Pravda No. 11

    Director

  21. Kino-Pravda No. 10

    Director

  22. Kino-Pravda No. 9

    Director

  23. Kino-Pravda No. 8

    Director

  24. Kino-Pravda No. 7

    Director

  25. Kino-Pravda No. 6

    Director

  26. Kino-Pravda No. 5

    Director

  27. Kino-Pravda No. 4

    Director

  28. Kino-Pravda No. 3

    Director

  29. Kino-Pravda No. 2

    Director

  30. Kino-Pravda No. 1

    Director

  31. 1921

    The History of the Civil War

    Director

1910s

  1. 1919

    Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'

    Director

  2. The Brain of Soviet Russia

    Director

  3. The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh

    Director

  4. Kino-Week No. 35

    Director

  5. Kino-Week No. 34

    Director

  6. Kino-Week No. 33

    Director

  7. Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1)

    Director

  8. Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2)

    Director

  9. Kino-Week No. 31

    Director

  10. Protsess Mironova

    Director

  11. 1918

    Kino-Week No. 29

    Director

  12. Kino-Week No. 28

    Director

  13. Kino-Week No. 25

    Director

  14. Kino-Week No. 24

    Director

  15. Anniversary of the Revolution

    Director

  16. Kino-Week No. 23

    Director

  17. Kino-Week No. 22

    Director

  18. Kino-Week No. 21

    Director

  19. Kino-Week No. 17

    Director

  20. Kino-Week No. 5

    Director

  21. Kino-Week No. 4

    Director

  22. Kino-Week No. 3

    Director

  23. Kino-Week No. 1

    Director

  24. Kino-week

    Director

Wrote 12

1940s

  1. 1942

    For You at the Front!

    Writer

1930s

  1. 1938

    Three Heroines

    Screenstory

  2. 1937

    Lullaby

    Screenstory

  3. 1934

    Three Songs About Lenin

    Writer

    68

1920s

  1. 1929

    Man with a Movie Camera

    Writer

    88
  2. 1928

    The Eleventh Year

    Writer

  3. 1926

    A Sixth Part of the World

    Writer

  4. Stride, Soviet!

    Writer

  5. 1924

    Kino-Eye

    Writer

  6. Soviet Toys

    Writer

  7. 1921

    The History of the Civil War

    Original Film Writer

1910s

  1. 1918

    Anniversary of the Revolution

    Original Film Writer

Edited 4

1920s

  1. 1926

    A Sixth Part of the World

    Editor

  2. Stride, Soviet!

    Editor

1910s

  1. 1919

    The Brain of Soviet Russia

    Editor

Acted in 2

2000s

  1. 2002

    All Vertovs

    (archive footage)

1920s

  1. 1922

    Kino-Pravda No. 8

    Movie

Other crew 1

2010s

  1. 2017

    Ziv Zero

    In Memory Of

Art department 1

1920s

  1. 1924

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

    Title Designer

Appearances3

2020s

  1. 2024

    The Return of Vertov

    Self (archive footage)

1960s

  1. 1966

    World Without a Game

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 1963

    The Magic Beam

    Self (archive footage)

Thanked in the credits1

2010s

  1. 2019

    Lluvia de jaulas

    Thanks