Mikhail Kaufman
Personal Info
Know For
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-09-05 (83 years old)
Deathday
1980-11-03
Place of Birth
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Also known As
Михаил Кауфман
Кауфман Михайло Абрамович
Михайло Кауфман
М. 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...
Acting
1929
as The Cameraman
2002
as (archive footage)
1966
as Himself
Production
1929
as Director
1927
as Director
1929
as Director of Photography
1945
as Director
1933
as Director
1939
as Director
1922
as Director of Photography
1925
as Director of Photography
1925
as Director of Photography
1924
1924
as Director of Photography
1923
as Director of Photography
1925
as Director of Photography
1964
as Director
1955
as Director
1939
as Camera Operator
1931
as Director
1931
as Writer
1929
as Writer
1926
as Director of Photography
1926
as Assistant Director
1929
as Director of Photography
1931
as Director of Photography
1923
as Director of Photography
1923
as Editor
1923
as Title Designer
1928
as Director of Photography
1924
as Director of Photography
1964
as Director of Photography
-
as Director
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