Man with a Movie Camera

Experimenting with a wide array of diverse cinematic techniques, the indefatigable director, Dziga Vertov, incorporates jump cuts; odd angles; split screens; double exposures; extreme close-ups, and a rapid-fire montage to document the interaction of the ordinary Soviet citizen with the hectic rhythm of life. Throughout the course of a single day--from dusk till dawn, and always accompanied by the rhythmic hum of the machinery--Vertov offers a grand tour of Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev at breakneck speed, describing what the main character, the unknown masses, see.