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Vertov's feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities.

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.