What is the best Dziga Vertov film of all time?

By YPB Team

He called the camera an eye and spent thirty years proving it, mostly in newsreels nobody ranks.

  1. Man with a Movie Camera — ranked #11
    Man with a Movie Camera
    The 1929 city symphony that turned a day in the Soviet Union into a catalogue of camera tricks.
    1000pts
  2. Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas — ranked #22
    Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas
    Vertov's 1931 first sound film, built from the noise of Donbas mines and factories.
    703pts
  3. Anniversary of the Revolution — ranked #33
    Anniversary of the Revolution
    Vertov's 1918 debut compilation, the first feature-length Soviet documentary.
    641pts
  4. The Eleventh Year — ranked #44
    The Eleventh Year
    A 1928 record of industrialisation on the eleventh anniversary of the revolution.
    481pts
  5. A Sixth Part of the World — ranked #55
    A Sixth Part of the World
    A 1926 travelogue across the Soviet republics, made as an advertisement for state trade.
    374pts
  6. Lullaby — ranked #66
    Lullaby
    A 1937 film on Soviet women and motherhood, assembled from footage across the union.
    374pts
  7. Kino-Pravda — ranked #77
    Kino-Pravda
    The 1922-1925 newsreel series of 23 issues that established Vertov's method.
    374pts
  8. History of the Civil War — ranked #88
    History of the Civil War
    A 1921 compilation feature on the Russian Civil War, long considered lost.
    374pts
  9. Kino-Eye — ranked #99
    Kino-Eye
    A 1924 film following Young Pioneers, famous for its reversed-motion sequences.
    240pts
  10. Three Songs About Lenin — ranked #1010
    Three Songs About Lenin
    A 1934 tribute built from three folk songs about Lenin.
    240pts
  11. Stride, Soviet! — ranked #1111
    Stride, Soviet!
    A 1926 portrait of Moscow's recovery, made for the city soviet.
    240pts
  12. Soviet Toys — ranked #1212
    Soviet Toys
    A 1924 animated short satirising the NEP-era profiteer.
    240pts

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