Mikhail Kaufman
Directing
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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Halo story
1955
Director
Our Moscow
1939
Director
movieIn Spring
1929
Director
movieMoscow
1927
Director
movieA Sixth Part of the World
1926
Assistant Director
Camera16
Planet of Secrets
1964
Director of Photography
Our Moscow
1939
Camera Operator
movieAn Unprecedented Campaign
1931
Director of Photography
movieIn Spring
1929
Director of Photography
movieMan with a Movie Camera
1929
Director of Photography
movieThe Eleventh Year
1928
Director of Photography
movieA Sixth Part of the World
1926
Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925
Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925
Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924
Director of Photography
movieKino Eye
1924
Director of Photography
movieKino-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
movieKino-Pravda No. 17
1923
Director of Photography
Give Us Air!
1923
Director of Photography
movieKino-Pravda No. 6
1922
Director of Photography
Acting4
movieAll Vertovs
2002
(archive footage)
movieMan with a Movie Camera
1929
The Cameraman
Writing2
Art1
movieKino-Pravda No. 15
1923
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