Dziga Vertov
Soviet film director (d. 1954) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.[1] 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. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.
Dziga Vertov | |
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Born | David Abelevich Kaufman (1896-01-02)2 January 1896 |
Died | 12 February 1954(1954-02-12) (aged 58) |
Nationality | Soviet |
Occupation(s) | Film director, cinema theorist |
Years active | 1917–1954 |
Notable work | Kino-Eye (1924) A Sixth Part of the World (1926) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Enthusiasm (1931) |
Spouse | |
Family | Boris Kaufman (brother) Mikhail Kaufman (brother) |
In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made.[2]
Vertov's younger brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.[3]