David Abelevich Kaufman (1896 –1954), also known as Denis
Kaufman or his pseudonym Dziga Vertov or Vertof 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 in the 1960s.
Dziga Vertov (director) with brother Mikhail Kaufman (cameraman)
In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.
Vertov's brother Boris Kaufman was a noted cinematographer
who worked much later for directors such as Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet in
America. (He won an Oscar for his work on On the Waterfront.) His other
brother, Mikhail Kaufman, worked as Vertov's cinematographer until he became a
documentarian in his own right. In September 1929, Vertov married his long-time
collaborator Elizaveta Svilova.
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