Kino-Pravda

Directed by

Dziga Vertov

Genre

newsreel

Country

Soviet Union

How it feels

This is a series of 23 newsreels from early Soviet cinema. It shows actual events and everyday life, using pioneering editing techniques by Dziga Vertov and his team.

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What happens

Kino-Pravda (Russian: Кино-Правда, lit. 'Film Truth') was a series of 23 newsreels by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman launched in June 1922. Vertov referred to the twenty-three issues of Kino-Pravda as the first work by him where his future cinematic methods can be observed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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