The History of the Civil War (18+)
Russia, 1921/2021, b/w, 84 min.
Directors: Dziga Vertov, Nikolai Izvolov
Directors: Dziga Vertov, Nikolai Izvolov
The second film by the father of documentary filmmaking, Dziga Vertov, covering the events of the Civil War in Russia (1918-1922). The mysteriously lost film was discovered and reconstructed in 2021, the year of its centenary, by Nikolai Izvolov.
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
was a soviet avant-garde filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker and theorist. He developed the kino-glaz (“film-eye”) theory. His theory influenced the international development of documentaries and cinema realism.
FILMOGRAPHY
Kino-nedelia, 1919; Kino-Glaz, 1924; Kino-Pravda, 1925; The Sixth Part of the World, 1926; The Eleventh Year, 1928; The Man with the Camera, 1929.
Nikolai Izvolov
Nikolai Izvolov
is a Russian historian and cinema theorist, researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of “lost” films. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been teaching the course “Practice of work in film archives” for students of the film studies department of VGIK. He is also the author of the books “The Phenomenon of Cinema. History and Theory” (2012) and “Unknown Pages of Russian Avant-garde Cinema” (2021).
FILMOGRAPHY
Anniversary of the Revolution, 2018; The History of the Civil War, 2021.
Russia, 1921/2021, b/w, 84 min.
Directors: Dziga Vertov, Nikolai Izvolov
Directors: Dziga Vertov, Nikolai Izvolov
The second film by the father of documentary filmmaking, Dziga Vertov, covering the events of the Civil War in Russia (1918-1922). The mysteriously lost film was discovered and reconstructed in 2021, the year of its centenary, by Nikolai Izvolov.