Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, this film utilizes a groundbreaking style of rapid editing and incorporates innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing power and energy. A dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union, Man with a Movie Camera offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. Dziga Vertov's first full-length film, it employs all the cinematic techniques at the director's disposal—dissolves, split-screens, slow-motion, and freeze-frames—to produce a work that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant.