Dziga Vertov

David Kaufman, known as Dziga Vertov, was born on 2 January 1896 in Białystok, into a Jewish family of booksellers and librarians. A pupil at the city's conservatory, he made his way to Moscow with his family ahead of the German advance. From 1918 an editor on the first Soviet newsreel series, he formed the Kino-Eye group with his brother Mikhail, a cameraman, and Yelizaveta Svilova, an editor, whom he married in 1923. Reduced during his last two decades to editing newsreels, he died in Moscow on 12 February 1954.

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• CinemaMan with a Movie CameraЛюдина з кіноапаратомDziga Vertov · 1929Cinema