Dziga Vertov

A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness. (imdb)

This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. (imdb)

Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements... (imdb)

The first sound film of Dziga Vertov, this is a tribute to the first Soviet 5 year plan, opening with the forcible transformation of churches to social and political clubs, filming work in the coal mines of the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, capturing the sights and sounds of steel and locomotive works, and finishing with some scenes of harvests in the Ukraine countryside. (IMDB Comments)

The film was shot in 1942 in Kazakhstan.

Documentary about the "new life" in the communistic Soviet Republic.

A celebration film of the 11th year following the October Revolution. According to Vertov it was a "summary film" of a "new visuality." In The Eleventh Year, the rhythmic montage of mostly static shots in his previous film A Sixth Part of the World, has been replaced by the lyrical, dynamic flow of moving shots. In several cases these images attain iconic status (as, for example, the bust of Lenin projected upon gushing water), but often they refer simply to the pure visuality of movement. (nodo50.org)

Considered to be the first animated Soviet film, Soviet Toys was made by the acclaimed director, Dziga Vertov. It is based on political caricatures by V. Deni which appeared in the newspaper 'Pravda'.

A plotless and heavily edited assortment of scenes from the daily life and labor of Moscow.

Early Dadaist short. (imdb)

A Soviet newsreel by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

Dziga Vertov documenting the funeral of Sergiya Radonezhskogo. (imdb)

The first newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

A Soviet Union newsreel in the Kino-pravda series by Dziga Vertov. (imdb)

This is a series of 23 "newsreels" by Vertov (1922-1925). The best-known of them is No. 21, "21-aya Kino-Pravda Leninskaya - K godovshchine smerty" (1925), which commemorates the first anniversary of Lenin's death. (imdb)

Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, we are nonetheless treated to Aleksandr Bushkin's time-lapse animation and his brilliant sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, "a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant's log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves"--a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia's distant peasantry. (imdb)

To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Vertov celebrates women and mothers of the USSR from a structure punctuated by lullabies with reflections folklore originally composed for the film. (itsalltrue.com.br)

"Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Celebrations." A celebration like all celebrations: Trotsky, speeches, demonstrations-- and suddenly, a jewel: an extreme close-up of someone's mouth shouting "Hurray!" The reason why Vertov called this film A Film Poem becomes clear in the second reel. Its purpose is a replay of the 5 years that have elapsed between 1917 and 1922. Its material is found-footage, often from Vertov's own earlier films, mostly from the Civil War years (cinetecadelfriuli.org)

The documentary shows the following events : conference on disarmament, atheistic propaganda, Timiryazev monument opening, promotion of sport

Kino-Pravda was a newsreel series by Dziga Vertov.

Part 7 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 8 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 9 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 10 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 11 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 14 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Part 16 of a series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Animation on soviet cooperatives.

This film shows us leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution.

The history of the October Revolution told in images, starting from the uprising of 25 February up to the first anniversary of the revolution. (imdb)

A feature length documentary taken by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, showing the incremental street battles and the major assaults waged against the counter revolutionaries. (imdb)

Simple animation urges strength through solidarity -- little farmers unite to compete with the big outfits. Also criticizes profiteering "company private shops."