Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Original title)Человек с киноаппаратом (Original title)Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Alternative title)Man with a Movie Camera (Alternative title)An Excerpt from the Diary of a Cameraman (Alternative title)The Man with the Movie Camera (Alternative title)Man with a Camera (Alternative title)Living Russia or The Man with the Camera (Alternative title)Moscow Today (Alternative title)
Date: 1929 (Release)Countries: Ukrainian SSR, USSR'Author/Supervisor of the Experiment': Dziga Vertov
Synopsis: Experimental. An impression of city life in modern Russia. It consists of unrelated shots of life in the city. The director regarded the film as "cinematic research in cinema, an attempt at a cinema-language, uninfluenced by literature or the theatre". The film is made in a series of definite sequences each forming one reel.Synopsis: The BFI Video 1998 VHS release includes the following: two versions of Dziga Vertoz's film: first the original silent version, accompanied by a new musical score composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra, then a repeat of the film with a commentary by the Russian film historian Yuri Tsivian. Released by arrangement with George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Urban life, Cinema, USSR
Releases
Date: January 1929Country: USSRRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Runtime: 67 mins
Date: 2002Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Distributor: BFI Video
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 67 mins 9 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 2022Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 67 mins Language: Russian
Date: 1929 (Release)Countries: Ukrainian SSR, USSR'Author/Supervisor of the Experiment': Dziga Vertov
Synopsis: Experimental. An impression of city life in modern Russia. It consists of unrelated shots of life in the city. The director regarded the film as "cinematic research in cinema, an attempt at a cinema-language, uninfluenced by literature or the theatre". The film is made in a series of definite sequences each forming one reel.Synopsis: The BFI Video 1998 VHS release includes the following: two versions of Dziga Vertoz's film: first the original silent version, accompanied by a new musical score composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra, then a repeat of the film with a commentary by the Russian film historian Yuri Tsivian. Released by arrangement with George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Urban life, Cinema, USSR
Releases
Date: January 1929Country: USSRRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Runtime: 67 mins
Date: 2002Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Distributor: BFI Video
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 67 mins 9 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 2022Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentRuntime: 67 mins Language: Russian
Credits
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Production Company: VUFKU, Chief Cameraman: Mikhail Kaufman, Assistant Editor: Elizaveta Svivlova
Cast
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Mikhail Kaufman (man with camera)