Mikhail Kaufman

Cinematographer

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...

Born: September 5, 1897 in Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)

Died: November 3, 1980 (Age 83)

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
All Vertovs Movie	7.5	Actor	(archive footage)	2002
World Without a Game Movie		Actor	Himself	1966
Earth in space Movie		Directing	Director	1945
An Unprecedented Campaign Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Writer, Director of Photography	1931
Man with a Movie Camera Movie Available on 7 streaming services.	8.2	Actor	The Cameraman	1929
In Spring Movie	7.4	Directing	Director, Writer, Director of Photography	1929
Man with a Movie Camera Movie Available on 7 streaming services.	8.2	Directing	Director of Photography	1929
The Eleventh Year Movie	6.7	Directing	Director of Photography	1928
Moscow Movie	7.5	Directing	Director	1927
A Sixth Part of the World Movie	7	Directing	Director of Photography, Assistant Director	1926
Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine Short Film	6	Directing	Director of Photography	1925
Kino-pravda no. 22 - Krestianskaia Kino-pravda Short Film	5.2	Directing	Director of Photography	1925
Kino-pravda no. 23 - Radio pravda Short Film	5.7	Directing	Director of Photography	1925
Kino Eye Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	6.8	Directing	Director of Photography	1924
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie Camera Race Over 299 Meters and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality Short Film	5.8	Directing	Director of Photography	1924
Kino-pravda no. 20 - Pionerskaia pravda Short Film	5.7	Directing	Director of Photography	1924
Kino-Pravda No. 17: For the First Soviet Agricoltural, Handicraft, and Industrial Exhibition Short Film	5.6	Directing	Director of Photography	1923
Kino-pravda no. 15 Short Film	5.4	Art	Title Designer	1923
Give Us Air! Short Film	5.3	Directing	Director of Photography, Editor	1923
Kino-pravda no. 8 Short Film	5.6	Actor		1922
Kino-pravda no. 6 Short Film	5.4	Directing	Director of Photography	1922

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