Born in Białystok in 1896 and died in Moscow in 1954, Vertov was a Soviet documentarian and theorist who called for a cinema of the camera eye, free of actors, sets and scripts. His Kino-Eye newsreels and his masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera turned film into a way of seeing modern life.
Filmography
- Kino-Eye (1924)
- A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
- The Eleventh Year (1928)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Enthusiasm (1931)