Acting credits
4
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Mikhail Kaufman
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.4
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Movies: 18Series: 0Crew credits: 15
TMDB ID: 1042437
IMDb ID: nm0442227
Known for: Directing
Born: September 5, 1897
Died: November 3, 1980
Age: 83
Place of birth: Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1922 - 2002
Years active: 81
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q2655706
Also known as
Михаил Кауфман • Кауфман Михайло Абрамович • Михайло Кауфман • М. Кауфман
Other jobs
Director of Photography (11)Director (3)Title Designer (1)
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).
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Mikhail Kaufman.
All Vertovs
as (archive footage)
2002 Movie
World Without a Game
as Himself
1966 Movie
1.0
An Unprecedented Campaign
Director
1931 Movie
6.5
In Spring
Director
1929 Movie
7.8
Man with a Movie Camera
as The Cameraman
1929 Movie
5.9
The Eleventh Year
Director of Photography
1928 Movie
6.0
Moscow
Director
1927 Movie
6.6
A Sixth Part of the World
Director of Photography
1926 Movie
5.4
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Director of Photography
1925 Movie
4.9
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Director of Photography
1925 Movie
5.4
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Director of Photography
1925 Movie
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Director of Photography
1924 Movie
6.7
Kino Eye
Director of Photography
1924 Movie
5.9
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
1924 Movie
5.3
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Director of Photography
1923 Movie
5.0
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Title Designer
1923 Movie
5.8
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922 Movie
5.0
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Director of Photography
1922 Movie