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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This film shows the leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution. It is the fr...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: The opening of an electric generating station / Tria...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Peasant People's Commissar for Agricultural Affairs,...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Starving children / Requisitioning of valuables poss...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Motor race ...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Rebuilding ...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions / Delegations a...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: International Youth Day and demonstrations / All-Rus...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Congress of the "Living Church" / Opening of the hor...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Streetcar collision / Arms manufacturing plant resum...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the S...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel. The first themed issue of Kino-Pravda, devoted to the fifth a...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrato...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Arts and crafts exhibition / Actions against hunger ...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Against war / Against Gods / Education / Agitation /...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and count...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Up the Eiffel Tower in Paris / Moscow / Auto race Pe...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Connecting city and country, south and north, summer...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Reports of the Pioneers: Excursion to the country, t...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the c...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instru...
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vlad...
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Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow p...
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Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR an...
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The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the O...
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A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
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An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas...
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This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet ...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Three Songs About Lenin (1934) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 2 | Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas (1930) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 3 | Man with a Movie Camera (1929) | Director / Writer | 5.8 | |
| 4 | The Eleventh Year (1928) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 5 | Stride, Soviet! (1926) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 6 | A Sixth Part of the World (1926) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 7 | Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story (1925) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 8 | Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda (1925) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 9 | Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 10 | Kino Eye (1924) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 11 | Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Directi (1924) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 12 | Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean (1924) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 13 | Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda (1924) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 14 | Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel (1923) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 15 | Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 16 | Kino-Pravda No. 15 (1923) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 17 | Kino-Pravda No. 17 (1923) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 18 | Kino-Pravda No. 2 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 19 | Kino-Pravda No. 5 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 20 | Kino-Pravda No. 1 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 21 | Kino-Pravda No. 4 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 22 | Kino-Pravda No. 7 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 23 | Kino-Pravda No. 11 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 24 | Kino-Pravda No. 10 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 25 | Kino-Pravda No. 9 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 26 | Kino-Pravda No. 6 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 27 | Kino-Pravda No. 8 (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 28 | Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution (1922) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 29 | Kino-Pravda No. 3 (1922) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 30 | The Brain of Soviet Russia (1919) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 31 | Kino-week (1918) | Director / Writer | 3 |

