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Mikhail Kaufman
Director 1897 - 1980

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 him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman. Kaufman... Read full bio →

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Vesnoy

Vesnoy

Mikhail Kaufman 1929 54m

Kyiv, 1929. Shots of the city as it wakes up and its awakening echoes with the lyrical pictures of the rebirth of nature. Kaufman’s attentive camera pauses for a long time on the smiling faces of children, painting a lyrical picture, a confession of love for Kyiv.

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