Mikhail Kaufman
Personal Info
Known For Camera
Gender Male
Birthday 1897-09-05
Deathday 1980-11-03 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Also Known As Михаил Кауфман, Кауфман Михайло Абрамович, Михайло Кауфман
Mikhail Kaufman
Biography
Mikhail Kaufman was a Soviet cinematographer and photographer. In the 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War, his brother director Dziga Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman. Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera. The film is built around meta-reference and is full of innovative visual effects: in it, Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges, hanging off the side of a train, climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners – all in order to get the best shot. Mikhail Kaufman directed three films: Moscow (1927), In Spring (1929), and An Unprecedented Campaign (1931).
Known For
Camera
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as Director of Photography
as Director of Photography
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Director
as Director
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as Assistant Director
Actor
as (archive footage)
as Himself
as The Cameraman
Writer
as Writer
as Writer
Editor
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Art
as Title Designer