Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman ( 1897 - 1980 ) - Soviet cameraman and director of feature documentaries.
| Mikhail Kaufman | |||
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| Birth name | Moses Abelovich Kaufman | ||
| Date of Birth | September 4, 1897 | ||
| Place of Birth | Bialystok , Grodno province Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | March 11, 1980 (82 years old) | ||
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||
| Profession | filmmaker cameraman | ||
| Career | 1922 - 1977 | ||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Selected filmography
- 3.1 Operator
- 3.2 Director
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in Bialystok (now Poland ) in the family of second-hand bookmaker Abel Kushelevich Kaufman and Khai-Esther Rakhmielevna Halpern, who married there in 1894 [1] . Brother of film director Dzigi Vertov (David Kaufman) and American cameraman Boris Kaufman .
In the cinema since 1922. Until 1927, he worked with Dziga Vertov at Sovkino (Goskino-Central Newsreel Studio). Then he worked at the film studios of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1941-1977 - director of the film studio Mostechfilm-Tsentrnauchfilm.
Rewards
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935)
- Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1946)
- Bronze medal of VDNH (1967).
Selected Filmography
Operator
- 1922 - The Social Revolutionary Process
- 1923 - Today (cartoon)
- 1924 - Cinema Eye
- 1926 - Moscow; Sixth part of the world
- 1927 - Day in the manger; Port of Novorossiysk; Eleventh
- 1929 - Man with a movie camera
- 1930 - In the spring
- 1931 - An Unprecedented Campaign (An Unforgettable Campaign)
- 1933 - Big Victory
- 1934 - Air Marsh
- 1937 - Four virtuosos
- 1938 - Architect Mordvinov; Dances of the peoples of the USSR; Hello brave
- 1939 - Our Moscow
- 1940 - On the Danube
Director
- 1923 - Today (cartoon)
- 1927 - Moscow [2] ; Day in a manger; Port of Novorossiysk
- 1930 - Spring
- 1931 - An Unprecedented Campaign (An Unforgettable Campaign)
- 1933 - Big Victory
- 1934 - Air Marsh
- 1935 - Happy youth; Blooming Ukraine
- 1937 - Lebedev-Kumach; Four virtuosos
- 1938 - Architect Mordvinov; Dances of the peoples of the USSR; Hello brave
- 1939 - Our Moscow
- 1942 - It was so, it will be so
- 1943 - Siberia during the war
- 1945 - Shadow of the Moon
- 1946 - One Line History
- 1947 - The Unknown Crimea; In the mountain Crimea
- 1948 - Vladimir-Suzdal Russia
- 1955 - The Story of the Halo
- 1950 - In the Tretyakov Gallery
- 1957 - Visiting the Three-Highlanders
- 1958 - A poem about the life of the people; Artist Grabar
- 1960 - Boris Prophets
- 1964 - Planet of riddles
- 1967 - Composer Tikhon Khrennikov
- 1972 - Dynamo
- 1976 - Big wash
Notes
- ↑ In the birth record, available on the Jewish genealogy website JewishGen.org, the name is indicated as Moses Abelovich Kaufman ( Polish: Moisej Abelowicz Kaufman ).
- ↑ Moscow 1927 movie on YouTube
Links
- Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. Yutkevich S.I .; Editorial: Afanasyev Yu.S., Baskakov V.E., Weissfeld I.V. et al. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. - 640 p., 96 p. silt with.
- http://cinefantom.ru/?p=531
- * Information about the archive of M. A. Kaufman on the website of the Russian State Archives of Arts rgali.ru. Circulation date May 15, 2019.