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.
Filmography
all 54
Movies 54
Director 48
self 1

The Return of Vertov (2024)

Ziv Zero (2017)

All Vertovs (2002)

World Without a Game (1966)

For You at the Front! (1942)

Three Heroines (1938)

Lullaby (1937)

Three Songs About Lenin (1934)

Enthusiasm (1930)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

The Eleventh Year (1928)

A Sixth Part of the World (1926)

Stride, Soviet! (1926)

Kino Eye (1924)

Soviet Toys (1924)

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality (1924)

First May in Moscow (1923)

Kino-Pravda No. 17 (1923)

Goskinokalendar (1923)

Kino-Pravda No. 15 (1923)

Give Us Air! (1923)

Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923)

Kino-Pravda No. 12 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 11 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 10 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 9 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 8 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 7 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 6 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 5 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 4 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 3 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 2 (1922)

Kino-Pravda No. 1 (1922)

The History of the Civil War (1921)

The Brain of Soviet Russia (1919)

Protsess Mironova (1919)

Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)

Kino-week (1918)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1896-01-03
Deathday1954-02-12 (58 years old)
Birth NameДави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман
Birth PlaceBiałystok, Poland
RelationshipsYelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (1929 - 1954)
SiblingsBoris Kaufman, Mikhail Kaufman
CitizenshipsRussian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Also Known AsДзига Вертов, Давид Кауфман, Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 지가 베르토프, Дзиґа Вертов, Денис Кауфман
AwardsMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Red Star, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
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