Dziga Vertov
Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
2.24body-of-work score · ranked #476 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
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- Born
- December 21, 1895 · Białystok
- Died
- February 12, 1954 · Moscow
- Nationality
- Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
- Work
- screenwriter, film director, film editor, cinematographer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1929 · Soviet Union · documentary, silent
Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #9 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #30 · TIME All-TIME 100
2.136 citations - 20.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 25 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1918The Anniversary of the Revolution
- 1920The Battle of Tsaritsyne
- 19231 May in Moscow
- 1923Give Us Air!
- 1923Kino Pravda No. 16: Spring Kino-Pravda. A Picturesque, Lyrical Newsreel
- 1923Госкинокалендарь
- 1923Кино-Правда № 14
- 1923Кино-Правда № 15
- 1923Кино-Правда № 17
- 1924Kino-Eye
- 1924Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Meters and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
- 1924Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow
- 1924Кино-Правда № 20
- 1925Lenin’s Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
- 1925Кино-Правда № 22
- 1925Кино-Правда № 23
- 1926A Sixth Part of the World
- 1926Stride, Soviet!
- 1928The Eleventh Year
- 1929Man with a Movie Camera
- 1930Enthusiasm
- 1934Three Songs of Lenin
- 1937In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- 1937Lullaby
- —Kino-Pravda