The Return of Vertov

1h 18m
Documentary
5

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)

Crew

Nikolai Izvolov
Director, Writer
Oksana Zolotova
Producer
Konstantin Miromanov
Camera Operator
Dmitry Novosyolov
Camera Operator
Denis Dronov
Music

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