FILM DIRECTOR

Dziga Vertov

1896 - 1954

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Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dziga Vertov has received more than 643,160 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Dziga Vertov is the 70th most popular film director (up from 77th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Poland (down from 90th 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 70 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergei Parajanov, Robert Zemeckis, Éric Rohmer, David Cronenberg, Chuck Jones, and Theo Angelopoulos. After him are Frank Capra, Christopher Nolan, Ernst Lubitsch, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Resnais, and Sydney Pollack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Dziga Vertov ranks 20. Before him are Klement Gottwald, Gerty Cori, Andrei Zhdanov, Leslie Groves, Milena Jesenská, and Felix Steiner. After him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Eugenio Montale, Oswald Mosley, Donald Winnicott, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Buenaventura Durruti. Among people deceased in 1954, Dziga Vertov ranks 16. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, André Derain, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Otto Diels, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. After him are Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vyshinsky, Jacinto Benavente, Léon Jouhaux, Lucien Tesnière, and The French Angel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Dziga Vertov ranks 99 out of 1,694. Before him are Egon Krenz (1937), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), and Tadeusz Reichstein (1897). After him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), and Maria Feodorovna (1759).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

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

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