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- Birth nameDenis Abramovich Kaufman
- Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He died on February 12, 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- SpouseElizaveta Svilova(1923 - February 12, 1954) (his death)
- Great use of editing techiniques in his movies
- Brother of Boris Kaufman.
- The pseudonym "Dziga Vertov" literally translates as "spinning, turning". The artist adopted this moniker whilst experimenting with film and audio recordings in the mid-1910s, and kept it for the rest of his career.
- Born in Bialystok, Poland, studied music and enrolled in St. Petersburg Neurological Institute in 1916. Worked on first Soviet newsreel, Kinonedelia (1918-1919), then on subsequent newsreel series (inc. Kinopravda, 1922-1925).
- Originally buried with his mother at Miusskaya Cemetery in Moscow. Vertov's posthumous reputation grew steadily with the post-Stalin cultural "thaw" of the late 1950s, and in 1967 he was reinterred in an honor grave at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.
- Had no creative control over his work after 1937, and could only direct government-approved documentaries and propaganda films. From 1944 until his death, Vertov was consigned to working anonymously as an editor of the Moscow newsreel "News of the Day".
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