

Man with a Movie Camera
“The Greatest Documentary Ever Made”
7.8(792)19291h 8m
Documentary
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Director
Dziga Vertov
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Reviews
1 review
Geronimo1967
1y ago
7.0
Could this be the original observational documentary? We begin as the audience flood into a cinema and settle down in front of the big screen. The cameraman then takes us on a tour of his city with no apparent rhyme nor reason to the imagery we see. There's a bit of the old Imperial opulence reflected in the architecture to contrast with the street beggars (whom the Soviet Union aways denied exist...












