Diretores

Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman born in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire, now Podlaskie, Poland, in 1896. He was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. He eventually adopted the name Dziga Vertov, and at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for “Kino-Nedelya”, the Moscow Cinema Committee’s weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia. After, he began the “Kino-Pravda”, a series of 23 newsreels where his future cinematic methods can be observed. Beyond his legacy in cinema language, technique and theory, he made films like “Kino-Eye” (1924), “A Sixth Part of the World” (1926), “Man with a Movie Camera” (1929), “Enthusiasm” (1931) and “Three Songs About Lenin” (1934). Vertov died in Moscow in 1954, at the age of 58.