Early in his career, Dziga Vertov, the world's most famous documentary filmmaker, made an epic about the early years of the Russian Civil War, which began in 1918. The film was screened only once, during the 3rd World Congress of the Comintern, in 1921. After being mysteriously lost for a century, the film resurfaces restored by Nikolai Izvolov.
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov (1896–1954) believed the camera was an enhanced human eye and, therefore, the best instrument for capturing reality. Also a theorist, he wrote manifests and tried to create a unique language of cinema, free from theatrical influence and artificial studio staging. Vertov was influential in the development of documentaries all over the world. His masterpiece is Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
