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Man with a Movie Camera is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Dziga Vertov released in USA on 12 may 1929 with Mikhail Kaufman

Man with a Movie Camera (2012)

Chelovek s kino-apparatom

Man with a Movie Camera
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Released in USA 12 may 1929
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginRussie
Genres Drama,    Documentary
Rating82% 4.143644.143644.143644.143644.14364

Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), Ukrainian: Людина з кіноапаратом (Liudyna z Kinoaparatom) —sometimes called A Man with a Movie Camera, The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man with the Kinocamera, or Living Russia) is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Soviet director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters," they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.

This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (at one point it features a split-screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted Man with a Movie Camera the 8th best film ever made. In 2014 Sight & Sound also named it the best documentary of all time.

Synopsis

Une journée de la vie quotidienne à Odessa: un opérateur filme, une monteuse visionne ses images, des spectateurs regardent le film qui est fait.

Actors

Mikhail Kaufman

(The Cameraman)
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