Dziga Vertov Filmography

Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet....

Chelovek s kino-apparatom is a movie starring Mikhail Kaufman and Elizaveta Svilova. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention....

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Tri pesni o Lenine is a movie starring Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and V.I. Lenin. Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's......

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary....