Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories paved the way to Cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking.
Brother of Boris Kaufman.
Brother of Mikhail Kaufman.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1122-1125. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
