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Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Kaufman

Director · 1897–1980 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)

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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).

Directed 8

1950s

  1. 1955

    Halo Story

    Director

1940s

  1. 1945

    Earth in Space

    Director

1930s

  1. 1939

    Our Moscow

    Director

  2. 1933

    A Great Victory

    Director

  3. 1931

    An Unprecedented Campaign

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    In Spring

    Director

  2. 1927

    Moscow

    Director

  3. 1926

    A Sixth Part of the World

    Assistant Director

Camera 14

1930s

  1. 1939

    Our Moscow

    Camera Operator

  2. 1931

    An Unprecedented Campaign

    Director of Photography

1920s

  1. 1929

    In Spring

    Director of Photography

  2. Man with a Movie Camera

    Director of Photography

    88
  3. 1928

    The Eleventh Year

    Director of Photography

  4. 1926

    A Sixth Part of the World

    Director of Photography

  5. 1925

    Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

    Director of Photography

  6. Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

    Director of Photography

  7. Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

    Director of Photography

  8. 1924

    Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

    Director of Photography

  9. Kino-Eye

    Director of Photography

  10. Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

    Director of Photography

  11. 1923

    Kino-Pravda No. 17

    Director of Photography

  12. 1922

    Kino-Pravda No. 6

    Director of Photography

Acted in 3

2000s

  1. 2002

    All Vertovs

    (archive footage)

1920s

  1. 1929

    Man with a Movie Camera

    The Cameraman

    88
  2. 1922

    Kino-Pravda No. 8

    Movie

Wrote 2

1930s

  1. 1931

    An Unprecedented Campaign

    Writer

1920s

  1. 1929

    In Spring

    Writer

Art department 1

1920s

  1. 1923

    Kino-Pravda No. 15

    Title Designer

Appearances1

1960s

  1. 1966

    World Without a Game

    Self