Man with a Movie Camera
01 hours 08 minutes
- Mikhail Kaufman
- Dziga Vertov
- Documentary, Silent
- May 12, 1929
- N/A
- Greatest Silent Films
Synopsis
This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!
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