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).
Filmography
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Movies 24
Director 16
self 2
All Vertovs (2002)
World Without a Game (1966)
Planet of secrets (1964)
Halo story (1955)
Earth in space (1945)
Our Moscow (1939)
A Great Victory (1933)
An Unprecedented Campaign (1931)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
In Spring (1929)
The Eleventh Year (1928)
Moscow (1927)
A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Kino-Pravda No. 23 (1925)
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story (1925)
Kino-Pravda No. 21 (1925)
Kino-Pravda No. 20 (1924)
Kino Eye (1924)
Kino-Pravda No. 18 (1924)
Kino-Pravda No. 17: For the First Agricultural and Cottage Industries Exhibition in the USSR (1923)
Kino-Pravda No. 15 (1923)
Give Us Air! (1923)
Kino-Pravda No. 8 (1922)
Kino-Pravda No. 6 (1922)
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1897-09-04
Deathday1980-03-11 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceBiałystok, Poland
SiblingsDziga Vertov, Boris Kaufman
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
Also Known AsМихаил Кауфман, Кауфман Михайло Абрамович, Михайло Кауфман
AwardsVDNKh bronze medal, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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