Mikhail Kaufman

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Personal Info

Known for

Camera

From

Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)

Born

9/5/1897

Age

127

Credit(s)

4

Biography

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 ...Show More