Mikhail Kaufman
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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 craw…
Also known as
Михаил Кауфман · Кауфман Михайло Абрамович · Михайло Кауфман · М. Кауфман
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Man with a Movie Camera
1929 · Movie
Halo story
1955 · Movie
A Sixth Part of the World
1926 · Movie
Kino Eye
1924 · Movie
In Spring
1929 · Movie
Our Moscow
1939 · Movie
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924 · Movie
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925 · Movie
Kino-Pravda No. 6
1922 · Movie
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 · Movie
Give Us Air!
1923 · Movie
Earth in Space
1945 · Movie