Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Kaufman

ActorDirectorCinematographerWriterDirecting Sep 5 (died age 83) Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland) 1922–2002 (80 year career)

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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…

Known For

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

The Cameraman

Kino Eye

Kino Eye

Director of Photography

A Sixth Part of the World

A Sixth Part of the World

Assistant Director

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year

Director of Photography

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

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

Director of Photography

In Spring

In Spring

Director

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

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

Kino-Pravda No. 17

Kino-Pravda No. 17

Director of Photography

Filmography

Acting (4)

Movies (4)

All Vertovs

All Vertovs

as (archive footage)

World Without a Game

World Without a Game

as Himself

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

as The Cameraman

Kino-Pravda No. 8

Kino-Pravda No. 8

Crew (31)

Movies (31)

Planet of Secrets

Director

Planet of Secrets

Director of Photography

Halo story

Director

Earth in Space

Director

Our Moscow

Camera Operator

Our Moscow

Director

A Great Victory

Director

An Unprecedented Campaign

An Unprecedented Campaign

Director

An Unprecedented Campaign

An Unprecedented Campaign

Director of Photography

An Unprecedented Campaign

An Unprecedented Campaign

Writer

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

Director of Photography

In Spring

In Spring

Director

In Spring

In Spring

Director of Photography

In Spring

In Spring

Writer

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year

Director of Photography

Moscow

Moscow

Director

A Day at Nursery

Director

A Sixth Part of the World

A Sixth Part of the World

Assistant Director

A Sixth Part of the World

A Sixth Part of the World

Director of Photography

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

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

Director of Photography

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

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

Director of Photography

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

Director of Photography

Kino Eye

Kino Eye

Director of Photography

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

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

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

Director of Photography

Kino-Pravda No. 17

Kino-Pravda No. 17

Director of Photography

Kino-Pravda No. 15

Kino-Pravda No. 15

Title Designer

Give Us Air!

Director of Photography

Give Us Air!

Editor

Kino-Pravda No. 6

Kino-Pravda No. 6

Director of Photography

Земля в пространстве (The Earth in Space)

Director