Dziga Vertov Movies

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

A middle-aged man, named Ziv, finds it difficult to understand the today's society. The film illustrates his wild views and concerns, as his...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for...

Promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centering on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting...

Through the travelogue format, the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land....

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead....

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Up the Eiffel Tower in Paris / Moscow / Auto race Petrograd – Moscow / Aspects of everyday...

The building of Sevzapkino. Columns of demonstrators are moving along Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Dzerzhinsky square, Pushkinskaya (Strastnaya) square,...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel. The first themed issue of Kino-Pravda, devoted to the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1922.

Commissioned as both a documentary and an information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, a tableau of Soviet life and...

An anthology of three parts focusing on early aviation, aircraft, airports, and the avant-garde theatrical work of Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Archival footage of Ordzhonikidze, scenes from his funeral in Moscow, and speeches by his grieving colleagues, including Joseph Stalin and Nikita...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: International Youth Day and demonstrations / All-Russian Olympiad / Streetcar collision /...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Streetcar collision / Arms manufacturing plant resumes operation / Assembling an automobile / Bicycle...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and country / Agricultural and home industries exhibition:...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Reports of the Pioneers: Excursion to the country, to the zoo etc.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station...

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of 'acted films', which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of...