Dziga Vertov

Directing

Born January 3, 1896 — Died February 11, 1954

From Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire

Also known as Давид Кауфман, Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 지가 베르토프

Biography

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...