Mikhail Kaufman
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1897
- Place of birth
- Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
- Died
- November 3, 1980
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 with Mikhail Kaufman
- Man with a Movie Camera 1929 · ★ 7.8
- Kino-Pravda No. 8 1922 · ★ 5.8
- All Vertovs 2002
- World Without a Game 1966
Movies directed by Mikhail Kaufman
- In Spring 1929 · ★ 6.8
- Moscow 1927 · ★ 6.7
- An Unprecedented Campaign 1931 · ★ 1.0
- Earth in Space 1945
- A Great Victory 1933
- Our Moscow 1939
- Planet of Secrets 1964
- Halo Story 1955
- A Day at Nursery 1927