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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 608,906 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Dziga Vertov is the 77th most popular film director (up from 80th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Poland (up from 97th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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  • 47

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dziga Vertov ranks 77 out of 1,581. Before him are Chuck Jones, F. W. Murnau, Frank Capra, John Huston, Costa-Gavras, and Robert Bresson. After him are Ernst Lubitsch, Dario Argento, Alan Parker, David Lean, Sergei Parajanov, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Dziga Vertov ranks 22. Before him are Paula Hitler, Gerty Cori, Oswald Mosley, Felix Steiner, Milena Jesenská, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. After him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Donald Winnicott, Ernst Udet, Howard Hawks, Célestin Freinet, and Buenaventura Durruti. Among people deceased in 1954, Dziga Vertov ranks 15. Before him are Princess Märtha of Sweden, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, Alcide De Gasperi, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Maximilian von Weichs. After him are Otto Diels, Andrey Vyshinsky, Machine Gun Kelly, The French Angel, Jacinto Benavente, and Claude Cahun.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Dziga Vertov ranks 90 out of 1,454. Before him are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Anton Denikin (1872), Kurt Alder (1902), and Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512). After him are Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Ulrich Beck (1944), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Catherine Jagiellon (1526).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Dziga Vertov ranks 3. Before him are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941) and Andrzej Wajda (1926). After him are Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932).

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Filmography

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