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Dziga Vertov
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Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
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Dawid Abелевич Kaufman, known as Dziga Vertov, was a male screenwriter, film director, film editor, and cinematographer. Born in Białystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire, in 1896, he began his work period in 1917. He spoke Russian and was a citizen of the Russian Empire, Ukraine, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His notable work includes the documentary film *Man with a Movie Camera*.
Vertov was married to Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova and had siblings Mikhail Kaufman and Boris Kaufman. He received the Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", and the Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". He died of cancer in Moscow in 1954 from natural causes. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Film & TV
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
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…
Known for
- The Return of Vertov — Self (archive footage)2024
- All Vertovs — (archive footage)2002
- World Without a Game — Self (archive footage)1966
- The Magic Beam — Self (archive footage)1963
- Kino-Pravda No. 81922
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dawid
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Białystok
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Sibling
- Boris Kaufman
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Genre
- documentary film
- Image
- David Kaufman (Dziga Vertov) 1913.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Dziga Vertov
- date of birth
- 1896-01-02
- date of death
- 1954-02-12
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- Dziga Vertov
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- Dziga Vertov
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Dziga Vertov
- start of work period
- 1917-00-00
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- birth name
- Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман
- name in native language
- Дзи́га Ве́ртов
- end of work period
- 1954-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Denis Arkadyevich Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954), better known as Dziga Vertov, 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. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.
In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made.
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