Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (born 1896)

Dziga Vertov

Soviet-Jewish filmmaker (1896–1954)

Dziga Vertov 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…