Director
Mikhail Kaufman
Born 1897 · 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 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).
Directed
A Sixth Part of the World
Assistant Director · 1926
In Spring
Director · 1929
Moscow
Director · 1927
An Unprecedented Campaign
Director · 1931
Planet of Secrets
Director · 1964
Earth in Space
Director · 1945
Our Moscow
Director · 1939
Halo story
Director · 1955
A Great Victory
Director · 1933
Земля в пространстве (The Earth in Space)
Director
A Day at Nursery
Director · 1927
