The Return of Vertov (2024)
Overview
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
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