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).
Filmography
Cast Credits
Crew
Crew Credits
Planet of Secrets
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1964
Planet of Secrets
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1964
Halo story
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1955
Earth in space
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1945
Our Moscow
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1939
Our Moscow
Role: Camera Operator
MOVIE • 1939
A Great Victory
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1933
An Unprecedented Campaign
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1931
An Unprecedented Campaign
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1931
An Unprecedented Campaign
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1931
Man with a Movie Camera
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1929
In Spring
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1929
In Spring
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1929
In Spring
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1929
The Eleventh Year
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1928
Moscow
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1927
A Sixth Part of the World
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1926
A Sixth Part of the World
Role: Assistant Director
MOVIE • 1926
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1925
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1925