Dziga Vertov

Directing·Jan 3, 1896·Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire

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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.

Film	Credit
The Return of Vertov2024 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
All Vertovs2002 · (archive footage)	(archive footage)
World Without a Game1966 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam1963 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
For You at the Front!1942 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
In the Area of Height A1941 · Director	Director
Three Heroines1938 · Director	Director
IIn Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze1937 · Director	Director
Lullaby1937 · Director	Director
Three Songs About Lenin1934 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas1930 · Director	Director
SSound team program No 21930 · Director	Director
Man with a Movie Camera1929 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Eleventh Year1928 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Sixth Part of the World1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Stride, Soviet!1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda1925 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story1925 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin1925 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda1924 · Director	Director
Kino Eye1924 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean1924 · Director	Director
Soviet Toys1924 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality1924 · Director	Director
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema1924 · Director	Director
FFirst May in Moscow1923 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 171923 · Director	Director
GGoskinokalendar1923 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel1923 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 151923 · Director	Director
GGive Us Air!1923 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 141923 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution1922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 121922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 111922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 101922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 91922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 81922 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Kino-Pravda No. 71922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 61922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 51922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 41922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 31922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 21922 · Director	Director
Kino-Pravda No. 11922 · Director	Director
The History of the Civil War1921 · Director	Director
Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'1919 · Director	Director
The Brain of Soviet Russia1919 · Director	Director