Mikhail Kaufman

1897 - 1980 (age 83) • Directing

Born: 9/5/1897 in Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)

Died: 11/3/1980 (age 83)

Known for: Directing

Mikhail Kaufman

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.

Known For

Man with a Movie Camera

78%

The Cameraman

1929

Kino Eye

67%

Director of Photography

1924

A Sixth Part of the World

66%

Director of Photography

1926

The Eleventh Year

59%

Director of Photography

1928

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

55%

Director of Photography

1925

Kino-Pravda No. 17

53%

Director of Photography

1923

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

59%

Director of Photography

1924

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

49%

Director of Photography

1925

All Vertovs

(archive footage)

2002

World Without a Game

Self

1966

Planet of Secrets

Director

1964

Planet of Secrets

Director of Photography

1964

Halo story

Director

1955

Earth in Space

Director

1945

Our Moscow

Director

1939

Our Moscow

Camera Operator

1939

A Great Victory

Director

1933

An Unprecedented Campaign

10%

Director

1931

An Unprecedented Campaign

10%

Writer

1931

An Unprecedented Campaign

10%

Director of Photography

1931

In Spring

68%

Director

1929

In Spring

68%

Writer

1929

In Spring

68%

Director of Photography

1929

Man with a Movie Camera

78%

The Cameraman

1929

Man with a Movie Camera

78%

Director of Photography

1929

The Eleventh Year

59%

Director of Photography

1928

Moscow

67%

Director

1927

A Day at Nursery

Director

1927

A Sixth Part of the World

66%

Director of Photography

1926

A Sixth Part of the World

66%

Assistant Director

1926

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

54%

Director of Photography

1925

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

49%

Director of Photography

1925

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

55%

Director of Photography

1925

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

53%

Director of Photography

1924

Kino Eye

67%

Director of Photography

1924

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

59%

Director of Photography

1924