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Man with a Movie Camera

The Greatest Documentary Ever Made

7.8 / 10

68 minutes

1929-05-12

No Language

SU

Actors :

Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova

Description

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/13/2024, 10:16:50 AM

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...