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Mikhail Kaufman
Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
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 h…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2002
All Vertovs
Movie (archive footage)
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1966
World Without a Game
Movie Self
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1964
Planet of Secrets
Movie Director
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1955
Halo Story
Movie Director
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1945
Earth in Space
Movie Director
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1939
Our Moscow
Movie Director
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1933
A Great Victory
Movie Director
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1931
An Unprecedented Campaign
Movie Director
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1929
In Spring
Movie Director
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1929
Man with a Movie Camera
Movie The Cameraman
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1928
The Eleventh Year
Movie Director of Photography
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1927
Moscow
Movie Director
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1927
A Day at Nursery
Movie Director
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1926
A Sixth Part of the World
Movie Director of Photography
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1925
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Movie Director of Photography
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1925
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Movie Director of Photography
More credits
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1925
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Movie Director of Photography
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1924
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Movie Director of Photography
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1924
Kino Eye
Movie Director of Photography
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1924
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Movie Director of Photography
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Movie Director of Photography
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1923
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Movie Title Designer
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1923
Give Us Air!
Movie Editor
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1922
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Movie
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1922
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Movie Director of Photography
