Screenplay: Dziga Vertov

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dziga Vertov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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

Soviet Toys (S)

1924 · Movie · 12 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Dziga Vertov

5.5

275 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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Protsess Mironova (S)

1919 · Documentary · 13 min. · Russia

Direction Dziga Vertov

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Cinema-Week

1918 · Documentary · 125 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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Tebe, front

1942 · Documentary · 45 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Dziga Vertov · Elizabeta Svilova

Plot This documentary tells the story of a Kazakh soldier fighting the Nazi invaders.

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Not rated