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Roman Karmen (16 November 1906 – April 1975) was a Soviet war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making; he could be considered Russia's answer to Leni Riefenstahl.

Karmen was a true believer in Communism, and roamed the world portraying the Spanish Civil War, the battles for Moscow and Leningrad in World War Two, the Viet Cong resistance in the 1950's and the rise of Communism in South America in the 50's and 60's. Karmen was also granted personal access to the emergance of Communist leaders China's Mao Tse-Tung, Vietnam's's Ho Chi Minh, Cuba's Fidel Castro and Chile's Salvador Allende.

Karmen's documentary methods were both influential and controversial, his renowned technical ability captured the emotion of war and the repetition of key shots and framings between film projects became a hallmark, but he would often blur the lines of Cinéma vérité by restaging key battles, including the liberation of Leningrad and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and reconstructing the 1953 invasion of Cuba by Communist forces lead by Fidel Castro as a first person documentary.

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