From Failed Propaganda to Timeless Masterpiece: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) In 1927 while Soviet cinema was celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, one of its most fervent directors was sidelined. Dziga Vertov’s latest film, Shestaia chast’ mira (A Sixth Part of the World, 1926) had disappointed in multiple ways, … Continue reading 1929: Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)