About

Known credits:
72
Birthday:
1896-01-03
Place of birth:
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
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Dziga Vertov

Overview

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

Acting
2024 The Return of Vertov Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2002 All Vertovs Actor (archive footage) N/A
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1966 World Without a Game Actor Archive footage N/A
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 8 Actor 58
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Directing
1942 For You at the Front! Directing Director 59
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1938 Three Heroines Directing Director 59
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1937 In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze Directing Director 58
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1937 Lullaby Directing Director 59
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1934 Three Songs About Lenin Directing Director 59
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1930 Enthusiasm Directing Director 59
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1930 Sound team program No 2 Directing Director 59
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1929 Man with a Movie Camera Directing Director 70
Good
1928 The Eleventh Year Directing Director 59
Average
1926 A Sixth Part of the World Directing Director 59
Average
1926 Stride, Soviet! Directing Director 59
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda Directing Director 58
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story Directing Director 58
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin Directing Director 58
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1924 Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda Directing Director 58
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1924 Kino Eye Directing Director 59
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1924 Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean Directing Director 58
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1924 Soviet Toys Directing Director 58
Average
1924 Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality Directing Director 58
Average
1924 Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema Directing Director N/A
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1923 First May in Moscow Directing Director 59
Average
1923 Kino-Pravda No. 17 Directing Director 58
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1923 Goskinokalendar Directing Director 59
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1923 Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel Directing Director 58
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1923 Kino-Pravda No. 15 Directing Director 58
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1923 Give Us Air! Directing Director 59
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1923 Kino-Pravda No. 14 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 12 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 11 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 10 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 9 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 8 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 7 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 6 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 5 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 4 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 3 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 2 Directing Director 58
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 1 Directing Director 58
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1921 The History of the Civil War Directing Director 58
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1921 Storia della guerra civile Directing Director N/A
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1919 Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda' Directing Director 59
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1919 The Brain of Soviet Russia Directing Director 58
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1919 Exhumation of the Remains of Sergius of Radonezh Directing Director 58
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1919 Protsess Mironova Directing Director N/A
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1918 Anniversary of the Revolution Directing Director 59
Average
1918 Kino-week Directing Director 59
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Writing
2009 Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake Writing Characters 59
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1942 For You at the Front! Writing Writer 59
Average
1938 Three Heroines Writing Screenstory 59
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1937 Lullaby Writing Screenstory 59
Average
1934 Three Songs About Lenin Writing Writer 59
Average
1929 Man with a Movie Camera Writing Writer 70
Good
1928 The Eleventh Year Writing Writer 59
Average
1926 A Sixth Part of the World Writing Writer 59
Average
1926 Stride, Soviet! Writing Writer 59
Average
1924 Kino Eye Writing Writer 59
Average
1924 Soviet Toys Writing Writer 58
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1921 The History of the Civil War Writing Original Film Writer 58
Average
1918 Anniversary of the Revolution Writing Original Film Writer 59
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Art
1924 Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality Art Title Designer 58
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Crew
2019 Lluvia de jaulas Crew Thanks 59
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2017 Ziv Zero Crew In Memory Of 59
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Editing
1934 Three Songs About Lenin Editing Editor 59
Average
1926 A Sixth Part of the World Editing Editor 59
Average
1926 Stride, Soviet! Editing Editor 59
Average
1919 The Brain of Soviet Russia Editing Editor 58
Average