Mikhail Kaufman
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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Movies (25)
All Vertovs
2002 · (archive footage)
World Without a Game
1966 · Self
Planet of Secrets
1964 · Director, Director of Photography
Halo Story
1955 · Director
Earth in Space
1945 · Director
Our Moscow
1939 · Director, Camera Operator
A Great Victory
1933 · Director
An Unprecedented Campaign
1931 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography
In Spring
1929 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Man with a Movie Camera
1929 · The Cameraman, Director of Photography
The Eleventh Year
1928 · Director of Photography
Moscow
1927 · Director
A Day at Nursery
1927 · Director
A Sixth Part of the World
1926 · Director of Photography, Assistant Director
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925 · Director of Photography
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925 · Director of Photography
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 · Director of Photography
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924 · Director of Photography
Kino-Eye
1924 · 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
1924 · Director of Photography
Kino-Pravda No. 17
1923 · Director of Photography
Kino-Pravda No. 15
1923 · Title Designer
Give Us Air!
1923 · Director of Photography, Editor
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922
Kino-Pravda No. 6
1922 · Director of Photography
TV shows (0)
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