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Dziga Vertov
Born January 3, 1896 Died February 11, 1954 (Age 58)Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire92 Credits
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…
