Dziga Vertov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dziga Vertov

Soviet documentary filmmaker

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1895

Place of Birth: Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1954

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, cinematographer, film director, film editor

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dziga Vertov (Russian: ????? ??????, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: ????´? ?´??????? ??´?????, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Russian 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. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.Vertov's younger brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.