Kino-Pravda Exactly 100 years ago, Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, together with his future wife Elizaveta Svilova (they would marry in 1923) and his brother Mikhail Kaufman, started the newsreel series Kino-Pravda, named after Pravda, the main official newspaper in the Soviet Union. The first issue of the series was released in 1922 and subsequently 22 more until 1925. In spite of limited resources, the film provides a ground for Vertov’s…

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