About

Known credits:
32
Birthday:
1897-09-05
Place of birth:
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Website:
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Mikhail Kaufman

Overview

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).

Known for

Acting
2002 All Vertovs Actor (archive footage) N/A
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1966 World Without a Game Actor Himself N/A
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1929 Man with a Movie Camera Actor The Cameraman 70
Good
1922 Kino-Pravda No. 8 Actor 59
Average

Directing
1964 Planet of secrets Directing Director N/A
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1955 Halo story Directing Director N/A
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1945 Earth in space Directing Director N/A
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1939 Our Moscow Directing Director N/A
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1933 A Great Victory Directing Director N/A
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1931 An Unprecedented Campaign Directing Director 58
Average
1929 In Spring Directing Director 59
Average
1927 Moscow Directing Director 59
Average
1926 A Sixth Part of the World Directing Assistant Director 59
Average

Writing
1931 An Unprecedented Campaign Writing Writer 58
Average
1929 In Spring Writing Writer 59
Average

Art
1923 Kino-Pravda No. 15 Art Title Designer 58
Average

Camera
1939 Our Moscow Camera Camera Operator N/A
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1931 An Unprecedented Campaign Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1929 Man with a Movie Camera Camera Director of Photography 70
Good
1929 In Spring Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1928 The Eleventh Year Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1926 A Sixth Part of the World Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1925 Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1924 Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1924 Kino Eye Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1924 Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1923 Kino-Pravda No. 17 Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1923 Give Us Air! Camera Director of Photography 59
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1922 Kino-Pravda No. 6 Camera Director of Photography 58
Average

Editing
1923 Give Us Air! Editing Editor 59
Average