Mikhail Kaufman
Age: N/A | From: Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Person Details
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Aliases: Михаил Кауфман , Кауфман Михайло Абрамович , Михайло Кауфман , М. Кауфман
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Man with a Movie Camera
(1929) Director of Photography
A Sixth Part of the World
(1926) Assistant Director
Kino Eye
(1924) Director of Photography
The Eleventh Year
(1928) Director of Photography
Kino-pravda no. 21
(1925) Director of Photography
Kino-pravda no. 17: For the First Agricultural and Cottage Industries Exhibition in the USSR
(1923) Director of Photography
In Spring
(1929) Writer
Kino-pravda no. 18
(1924) Director of PhotographyActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | (archive footage) | |
| 1966 | Himself | |
| 1929 | The Cameraman | |
| 1922 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Director | |
| 1955 | Director | |
| 1939 | Director | |
| 1933 | Director | |
| 1931 | Director | |
| 1929 | Director | |
| 1927 | Director | |
| 1926 | Assistant Director | |
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Camera
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Camera Operator | |
| 1929 | Director of Photography | |
| 1928 | Director of Photography | |
| 1926 | Director of Photography | |
| 1925 | Director of Photography | |
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| Director of Photography | ||
| 1924 | Director of Photography | |
| Director of Photography | ||
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| 1923 | Director of Photography | |
| 1922 | Director of Photography | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Cinematography | |
| 1929 | Cinematography | |
| 1926 | Cinematography | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Writer | |
| 1929 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Art
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | Title Designer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |