Dziga Vertov Movies

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...

A middle-aged man, named Ziv, finds it difficult to understand the today's society. The film illustrates his wild views and concerns, as his...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Up the Eiffel Tower in Paris / Moscow / Auto race Petrograd – Moscow / Aspects of everyday...

An anthology of three parts focusing on early aviation, aircraft, airports, and the avant-garde theatrical work of Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centering on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Starving children / Requisitioning of valuables possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church /...

A presentation of the hard labour of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the USSR economy and turning their country into a world power.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Streetcar collision / Arms manufacturing plant resumes operation / Assembling an automobile / Bicycle...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel. The first themed issue of Kino-Pravda, devoted to the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1922.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrators carrying banners.

Through the travelogue format, the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land....

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and country / Agricultural and home industries exhibition:...

The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / The verdict / People...

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for...

Commissioned as both a documentary and an information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, a tableau of Soviet life and...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Reports of the Pioneers: Excursion to the country, to the zoo etc.