FILM DIRECTOR

Dziga Vertov

1896 - 1954

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Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dziga Vertov is the 79th most popular film director (down from 70th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Poland (down from 99th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Film Director.

Dziga Vertov is most famous for his documentary films such as "Man with a Movie Camera" and "Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dziga Vertov ranks 79 out of 2,041. Before him are David Cronenberg, Elia Kazan, John Waters, F. W. Murnau, Tony Scott, and Agnès Varda. After him are Alain Resnais, Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, and Ernst Lubitsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Dziga Vertov ranks 23. Before him are Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, Milena Jesenská, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and Felix Steiner. After him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Howard Hawks, A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, Leslie Groves, and Donald Winnicott. Among people deceased in 1954, Dziga Vertov ranks 19. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, Jacinto Benavente, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Machine Gun Kelly. After him are James Hilton, Andrey Vyshinsky, Maximilian von Weichs, The French Angel, Léon Jouhaux, and Clemens Krauss.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Dziga Vertov ranks 109 out of 1,694. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), Georg Forster (1754), and Henryk Wieniawski (1835). After him are Saint Casimir (1458), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Karl Hanke (1903), and Hanna Reitsch (1912).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Dziga Vertov ranks 4. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), and Andrzej Wajda (1926). After him are Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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