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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Blu-ray)A film by Dziga Vertov | Music by Michael Nyman Voted the greatest documentary of all time in the 2014 Sight and Sound poll, Vertov’s ground breaking Man with a Movie Camera uses an array of dazzling cinematic techniques to record the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Presented with Michael Nyman’s celebrated score, this classic film is accompanied by an exciting selection of new extras, including Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin and two of his radical mid-1920s documentary films, both of which feature equally radical new soundtracks by electronic experimentalists Mordant Music Special features Nyman’s celebrated score played by the Michael Nyman Band Audio commentary by Russian film scholar Yuri Tsivian Kino-Pravda No. 21 (Dziga Vertov, 1925, 36 mins): newsreel devoted on Lenin on the anniversary of his death, with a new Mordant Music score One-Sixth of the Globe – ETV version (Dziga Vertov, 1926, 84 mins): ideologically charged documentary, presented in its specially prepared UK distribution version, with a daring new soundtrack by Mordant Music Three Songs of Lenin (Dziga Vertov, 1935, 61 mins): poetic propaganda film based on three songs of the Soviet East dedicated to the revolutionary leader David Collard on Three Songs of Lenin and W H Auden (2009, 7 mins) Simon Callow Reads W H Auden’s Versus from Three Songs of Lenin (2009, 3 mins) Fully illustrated booklet with essays and full credits USSR | 1929 | black and white | silent with music | 67 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | BD50 | 1080p | PCM stereo 2.0 audio (48k/24-bit) | Cert U (contains funeral and childbirth image) | Region B blu-ray