Direction: Dziga Vertov
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Dziga Vertov. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Man with the Movie Camera
1929 · Documentary · 67 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot An extraordinary montage of urban Russian life in 1929, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was...
8.1
6K votes
8.1
6K votes
Kino-Eye - Life Caught Unawares
1924 · Documentary · 78 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing...
7.4
435 votes
7.4
435 votes
Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass
1931 · Documentary · 67 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot An examination into Soviet miners. Enthusiasm has been called a 'sound film', with sound recorded on location, and these mechanical sounds woven together, producing a symphony-like effect.
7.4
261 votes
7.4
261 votes
One-Sixth of the World
1926 · Documentary · 61 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot A Sixth Part of the World is Vertov's "state of the USSR report", an extraordinary compilation of images from throughout the Soviet Union that chronicles the spread of the Bolshevik...
7.2
177 votes
7.2
177 votes
The Eleventh Year
1928 · Documentary · 52 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
7.0
119 votes
7.0
119 votes
Three Songs of Lenin
1934 · Documentary · 61 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
6.9
300 votes
6.9
300 votes
Shagay, sovet!
1926 · Documentary · 65 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
6.8
75 votes
6.8
75 votes
Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine
1925 · Documentary · 29 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot "Kino Pravda" is a series of 23 "newsreels" by Vertov (1922-1925). The best-known of them is No. 21, "21-aya Kino-Pravda Leninskaya - K godovshchine smerty" (1925), which commemorates the first...
6.7
33 votes
6.7
33 votes
Kino-Pravda
1922 · Documentary · 374 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot Miniserie (1922). 6 episodes. A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
6.6
31 votes
6.6
31 votes
5.5
275 votes
The Brain of Soviet Russia (S)
1919 · Documentary · 14 min. · Russia
Direction Dziga Vertov
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
Lullaby
1937 · Documentary · 58 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov · Elizabeta Svilova
Plot A song to released Soviet women.
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Vskrytie moshchey Sergiya Radonezhskogo (S)
1919 · Documentary · 5 min. · Russia
Direction Dziga Vertov
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Nash otvet na zloradstva burzhuaznogo mira (S)
1924 · Documentary · 1 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot An animated propaganda film showing that people continue to be loyal to the ideas of communism despite the death of Lenin and the gloating of foreign countries.
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In the Memory of Sergei Ordzhonikidze
1937 · Documentary · 55 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot Film made ​​on the death of Sergei Ordzhonikidze, who was a battalion commander who defeated Denikin's Soviet white troops in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921.
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The History of the Civil War
1922 · Documentary · 93 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov · Nikolai Izvolov
Cast Leon Trotsky
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Anniversary of the Revolution
1918 · Documentary · 119 min. · Russia
Direction Dziga Vertov
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Give Us Air! (S)
1923 · Documentary · 19 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Dziga Vertov
Plot Consists of three parts. About flying, air-crafts, airports and the avant-garde theatre of Meyerhold.
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