Mikhail Kaufman
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1897, Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
- Died
- November 3, 1980
- Movies
- 13
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2002 | All Vertovs | (archive footage) |
| 1966 | World Without a Game | Self |
| 1929 | Man with a Movie Camera | The Cameraman |
| 1922 | Kino-Pravda No. 8 |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1964 | Planet of Secrets | Director |
| 1955 | Halo Story | Director |
| 1945 | Earth in Space | Director |
| 1939 | Our Moscow | Director |
| 1933 | A Great Victory | Director |
| 1931 | An Unprecedented Campaign | Director, Writer |
| 1929 | In Spring | Director, Writer |
| 1927 | Moscow | Director |
| 1927 | A Day at Nursery | Director |
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