“The film drama is the Opium of the people... down with bourgeois fairytale scenarios... long live life as it is!”

About Dziga Vertov

Filmmaker • Soviet

Dziga Vertov was a pioneering Soviet documentary film and newsreel director, as well as an influential cinema theorist. Born David Abelevich Kaufman, he adopted the name Dziga Vertov, which loosely translates to...