The Dziga Vertov Group was formed in 1968 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

 and Jean-Pierre Gorin

Jean-Pierre Gorin

Jean-Pierre Gorin is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period....

. Their films are defined primarily for Brechtian

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

 forms, Marxist

Marxism

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 ideology, and a lack of personal authorship. The group, named after 1920s-'30s Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 filmmaker Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...

, was dissolved soon after the completion of 1972's Letter to Jane.

They are generally credited with having made nine films:

• 1968 Un Film comme les autres (A Film Like the Others)
• 1969 British Sounds/See You At Mao
• 1969 Pravda
• 1969 Le Vent d'est (Wind from the East)
• 1969 Luttes en Italie (Struggles in Italy), originally Lotte in Italia
• 1970 Jusqu'à la victoire (Until Victory/Palestine Will Win)
• 1971 Vladimir et Rosa (Vladimir and Rosa)
• 1972 Tout va bien
  Tout va bien
  Tout va bien is a 1972 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin and starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.-Overview:...
  
  (Everything's Fine)
• 1972 Letter to Jane
  Letter to Jane
  Letter to Jane is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news...
  
  

Jusqu'à la victoire could not be completed after the film's subjects and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed...

 were killed shortly after the initial footage was taken. Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

 later used the existing material in his 1974 film Ici et ailleurs

Ici et ailleurs

Here and Elsewhere is a 1976 film by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, made using footage from Jusqu'à la victoire, a 1970 pro-Palestinian film made by Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin as part of Dziga Vertov Group....

(Here and elsewhere). In the film, Godard and his wife deconstruct his and Gorin's methods for making Jusqu'à la victoire and they in turn call into question the methods and the manifesto of the Dziga Vertov Group as a whole.