Director

Mikhail Kaufman

Directing

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew 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

Frequent jobs

Director of Photography (11)Director (2)Title Designer (1)Writer (1)

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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 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).

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