Directing
Dziga Vertov
RU, ES, EN, XX cinema · 74 credits
Born
3 January 1896
Died
11 February 1954 (aged 58)
Birthplace
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
Also known as Давид Кауфман · Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman · 지가 베르토프 · Дзиґа Вертов · Денис Кауфман · Д. Вертов
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
as Self (archive footage)
Ziv Zero
In Memory Of
All Vertovs
as (archive footage)
World Without a Game
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
as Self (archive footage)
For You at the Front!
Director, Writer
Three Heroines
Screenstory, Director
Lullaby
Screenstory, Director
Three Songs About Lenin
Director, Writer, Editor
Man with a Movie Camera
Director, Writer
The Eleventh Year
Writer, Director
Stride, Soviet!
Director, Editor, Writer
A Sixth Part of the World
Director, Writer, Editor
Kino-Eye
Director, Writer
Soviet Toys
Director, Writer
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Director, Title Designer
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Actor, Director
Kino-Pravda No. 1
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 2
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 5
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 3
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 4
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 12
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Director
Kino-Pravda No. 9
Director
The History of the Civil War
Director, Original Film Writer
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Director, Editor
Protsess Mironova
Director
Kino-week
Director
Anniversary of the Revolution
Director, Original Film Writer
