Denis Arkadyevich Vertov, better known as Dziga Vertov, 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 from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, film director, film editor, cinematographer
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Ukraine, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Born
- December 21, 1895, January 2, 1896
- Died
