The Return of Vertov (2024)

5.0/10 78 min Documentary

Overview

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).

Cast

Nikolai Izvolov

Self - Russian film historian

Dziga Vertov

Self (archive footage)

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

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