Dziga Vertov
Soviet film director
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... Wikipedia
Born: January 2, 1896, Białystok, Poland
Died: February 12, 1954 (age 58 years), Moscow, Russia
Spouse: Yelizaveta Svilova (m. 1929–1954)
Books: Kino-eye
Parents: Abel Kaufman and Feyga Galpern
Siblings: Mikhail Kaufman and Boris Kaufman
Movies