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'''''Man with a Movie Camera'''''{{efn|Also known as ''A Man with a Movie Camera'', ''The Man with the Movie Camera'', ''The Man with a Camera'', ''The Man with the Kinocamera'', or ''Living Russia''. See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019760/releaseinfo#akas IMDB's list of alternate titles for ''Man with a Movie Camera''].}}{{efn|{{langx|ru|Человек с киноаппаратом|translit=Chelovek s kinoapparatom}}; {{langx|uk|Людина з кіноапаратом|translit=Lyudyna z kinoaparatom}}.}} is an experimental 1929 Soviet [[experimental film|experimental]] [[silent film|silent]] [[documentary film]], written and directed by [[Dziga Vertov]],. It was filmed by his brother [[Mikhail Kaufman]] (who also appears as the titular cameraman), and edited by Vertov's wife [[Yelizaveta Svilova]]. Kaufman also appears as the titular Man.

Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio [[All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration]] (VUFKU), presents urban life in [[Moscow]], [[Kiev]]<!--See WP:KIEV--> and [[Odessa]] during the late 1920s.<ref name="nyt1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/09/17/archives/the-screen.html|access-date=29 August 2022|title=Floating Glimpses of Russia|department=The Screen|type=review|date=17 September 1929|author=[[Mordaunt Hall]]|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=32 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203153843/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A07E7D71F30E33ABC4F52DFBF668382639EDE|archive-date=3 December 2017|url-status=live}} ([https://nyti.ms/3KqzprC facsimile])</ref> It has no actors.{{sfn|Michelson|1995|loc=ch. "Dziga Vertov. On ''[[Kino-Pravda]]''. 1924, and ''The Man with the Movie Camera''. 1928"}} From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters", they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.