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Man with a Movie Camera

Original title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom
  • 19291929
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 8m
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8.4/10
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Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova, Dziga Vertov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
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A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
26K
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    • Dziga Vertov
    • Dziga Vertov(scenario)
    • Mikhail Kaufman
    • Elizaveta Svilova(uncredited)
    • Dziga Vertov
    • Dziga Vertov(scenario)
    • Mikhail Kaufman
    • Elizaveta Svilova(uncredited)
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    • 149User reviews
    • 68Critic reviews
    • 96Metascore
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    Mikhail Kaufman
    • The Cameraman
    Elizaveta Svilova
    • Woman editing film
    • (uncredited)
      • Dziga Vertov
      • Dziga Vertov(scenario)
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    • Trivia
      A revelation in its day, the film was noted for introducing all sorts of camera techniques to audiences. Some of these include double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, backward footage, and stop motion animation.
    • Crazy credits
      At the beginning there is a long explanation of what this film is about and that it is of experimental origin.
    • Alternate versions
      Kino International, by arrangement with the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, released a version in 1996 produced by David Shepard and copyrighted by Film Preservation Associates. It runs 68 minutes and has new original music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra following the written instructions from the director, Dziga Vertov. The music has been copyrighted by Junk Metal Music in 1996.
    • Connections
      Edited from Kino Eye (1924)

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    8/10
    An intense but highly crafted art film.
    I noticed in the IMDb trivia section that there are multiple soundtracks that have been composed for this film. Seeing the film with a different track might greatly influence the viewing experience, as the version I saw had an incredibly intense and driving soundtrack. While it wasn't at all pleasant, it was infectious and worked well since "The Man With a Camera" is such a strange experimental film. Perhaps some of the other versions have lighter accompanying music.

    As I said above, "The Man With a Camera" is an experimental film. It has no intertitle cards and no story--just LOTS of glimpses at people (mostly at work) in the new Soviet Union. And, because it IS so vague, it's a film that could be appreciated by anyone. However, most folks out there don't want to see art films and if they did, they might like something a bit lighter and less mania-inducing (the soundtrack is amazingly tense). It's well-crafted and well worth seeing...but very, very strange.
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    • Release date
      • May 12, 1929 (United States)
      • Soviet Union
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      • Dovzhenko Centre
      • VUFKU
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    • Filming locations
      • Kyiv, Ukraine
    • Production company
      • Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
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    • 1 hour 8 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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