Mikhail Kaufman

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).
    Known for
    Camera
    Place of birth
    Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
    Birthday
    9/5/1897
Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera
7.8
All Vertovs
All Vertovs
0
World Without a Game
World Without a Game
0
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Kino-Pravda No. 8
5.8
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