Man with a Movie Camera

Synopsis

The Man with the Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova who helped with the process of deleting and adding new frames into the film. Vertov’s feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.

Director Biography

David Kaufma (2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954), better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.