Director

Dziga Vertov

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Directed movies: 38Directed series: 0All crew credits: 43

TMDB ID: 95111

IMDb ID: nm0895048

Known for: Directing

Born: January 3, 1896

Died: February 11, 1954

Age: 58

Place of birth: Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1918 - 2024

Years active: 107

Average TMDB rating: 6.18

Wikidata: Q55193

Also known as

Дзига Вертов • Давид Кауфман • Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman • 지가 베르토프 • Дзиґа Вертов • Денис Кауфман

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Biography

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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