Directing
Dziga Vertov
Born Jan 3, 1896 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire · Died Feb 11, 1954
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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Directed
For You at the Front!
1942
War · History
In the Area of Height A
1941
Documentary · War
Three Heroines
1938
Documentary
Lullaby
1937
Documentary
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
Documentary
Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas
1930
Documentary
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Documentary
The Eleventh Year
1928
Documentary
A Sixth Part of the World
1926
Documentary
Stride, Soviet!
1926
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924
Documentary
Kino-Eye
1924
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
1924
Documentary
Soviet Toys
1924
Animation · Comedy
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924
Documentary
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
1924
Animation
Kino-Pravda No. 17
1923
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
1923
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 15
1923
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 14
1923
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 12
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 11
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 10
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 9
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 7
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 6
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 5
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 4
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 3
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 2
1922
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 1
1922
Documentary
The History of the Civil War
1921
Documentary · History
Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'
1919
Documentary
The Brain of Soviet Russia
1919
Documentary
The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
1919
Documentary
Kino-Week No. 35
1919
Kino-Week No. 34
1919
Kino-Week No. 33
1919
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #1)
1919
Kino-Week No. 32 (Fragment #2)
1919
Kino-Week No. 31
1919
Protsess Mironova
1919
Documentary
Kino-Week No. 29
1918
Kino-Week No. 28
1918
Kino-Week No. 25
1918
Kino-Week No. 24
1918
Anniversary of the Revolution
1918
Documentary · History
Kino-Week No. 23
1918
Kino-Week No. 22
1918
Kino-Week No. 21
1918
Kino-Week No. 17
1918
Kino-Week No. 5
1918
Kino-Week No. 4
1918
Kino-Week No. 3
1918
Kino-Week No. 1
1918
Kino-week
1918
Documentary
Acting
The Return of Vertov
2024
Documentary
All Vertovs
2002
Documentary
World Without a Game
1966
Documentary
The Magic Beam
1963
Documentary
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922
Documentary