Mikhail Kaufman
Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1897 · Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
- Died
- November 3, 1980 (age 83)
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.
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Mikhail Kaufman directed three films: Moscow (1927), In Spring (1929), and An Unprecedented Campaign (1931).
Known for
Man with a Movie Camera
May 12, 1929
Kino-Eye
October 31, 1924
A Sixth Part of the World
December 31, 1926
The Eleventh Year
May 15, 1928
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
January 21, 1925
Kino-Pravda No. 17
August 21, 1923
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
February 25, 1924
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
December 12, 1924
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
March 13, 1925
Kino-Pravda No. 15
May 1, 1923
In Spring
October 25, 1929
Kino-Pravda No. 6
July 14, 1922
Behind the camera22
- 1964Planet of Secrets Director, Director of Photography
- 1955Halo Story Director
- 1945Earth in Space Director
- 1939Our Moscow Director, Camera Operator
- 1933A Great Victory Director
- 1931An Unprecedented Campaign Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 1929In Spring Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 1929Man with a Movie Camera Director of Photography
- 1928The Eleventh Year Director of Photography
- 1927