Mikhail Kaufman

Known for DirectingBorn 1897-09-05Died 1980-11-03Bialystok, 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 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Man with a Movie Camera

Give Us Air!

In Spring

Moscow

Kino Eye

A Sixth Part of the World

The Eleventh Year

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

Kino-Pravda No. 8

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

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

Kino-Pravda No. 17

Kino-Pravda No. 15

Kino-Pravda No. 6

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

An Unprecedented Campaign

All Vertovs

World Without a Game

Planet of Secrets

Halo story

Earth in Space

Our Moscow

A Great Victory

A Day at Nursery

Земля в пространстве (The Earth in Space)