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Man With a Movie Camera

Man With a Movie Camera

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Dziga Vertov


  • Country: Soviet Union
  • Year: 1929
  • Language: Silent
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  • Runtime: 68 min.

Taking the art of montage to dizzying new heights, Dziga Vertov's kaleidoscopic "city symphony" is one of the most influential films ever made.

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 Taking the art of montage to dizzying new heights, Dziga Vertov's kaleidoscopic "city symphony" is one of the most influential films ever made. Enthralled by the feverish optimism and awe-inspiring technological progress of the young Soviet Union, Vertov sought to create a new kind of film language to complement the brave new world being built. While his colleague Sergei Eisenstein would repeatedly go back in the past to celebrate the historical foundations of the new Soviet "utopia," Vertov took his camera into the streets of Moscow, Kiev and Odessa to capture its reality in the present, creating a thrilling documentary portrait of the machine age and the surging humanity that drives and is driven by it.

Thanks to the Marie-Pierre Lessard, Cinémathèque québécoise.

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