Boris Kaufman ( fr. Boris Kaufman or Kaufmann , birth name Boris Abelevich Kaufman , August 24, 1903 [5] , Bialystok, Grodno Province - June 24, 1980 , New York ) - French and American cameraman and filmmaker, brother of Soviet filmmakers Dzigi Vertova and Mikhail Kaufman .
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| Birth name | Boris Abelovich Kaufman |
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| Citizenship |  France  USA |
| Profession | cameraman , filmmaker |
| Career | 1927-1970 |
| Direction | vanguard |
| Awards |  Golden Globe , Oscar |
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Biography
The son of the bookseller Abel Kushelevich Kaufman and Hai-Esther Rahmielevna Halpern, married in Bialystok in 1894. My father owned a book warehouse and two shops - in Bialystok and Kiev , which was also the owner and trustee of the city public library [6] . He studied at the St. Petersburg school. When the First World War began , the Kaufmans left for Kiev, then moved to Mogilev . After 1917, together with his parents, he left Russia for Poland , and then for France . Boris studied in Grenoble , then moved to Paris, where he became a student at the Sorbonne , and after graduating from the university he began working in films, first documentary, then in fiction, at first was forced to shoot advertising and commercial films. He made his first films (these were short films) in 1928 .
He shot all the films of Jean Vigo . Kaufman, who was forced to sell his camera during the shooting of the film “ Zero for Behavior ”, was not frightened by economic difficulties, and he continued to work with Vigo, filming Atalanta with the camera that Dziga Vertov sent him from the USSR. Due to the illness of the director, he independently shot the latest plans for his only full-length film “ Atalanta ”. Kaufman wrote about this picture: “The work with Vigo will never be forgotten by those who participated in this feverish, full of improvisation work. We used everything - the sun, fog, snow, twilight. The work was carried out day and night ... ” [7] . He also shot several tapes of Dimitri Kirsanov , worked with Abel Hans , Christian-Jacques , Mark Allegre and others.
With the outbreak of World War II he went to the front. After the defeat of France, he emigrated to the United States , taught in Toronto at a film school, where he collaborated as a documentary filmmaker with John Grierson , and again moved to the USA in 1942 , where he made documentaries and worked on odd jobs until the early 1950s, working on popular science and low-budget game pictures. Subsequently, he constantly worked with Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet , according to the latter: "... Boris Kaufman was an excellent director of photography, probably the best of all that I saw, the most artistic of all, and I admire him."
In addition, he collaborated with George Roy Hill (“The World of Henry Orient”, 1964), Jules Dassin (“Alert”, 1968), Otto Preminger (“Say that you love me, Junie Moon”, 1970). He shot the experimental “Film” according to the script of Samuel Becket ( 1964 , starring Buster Keaton ). After 1970, he no longer worked in the cinema, since his name was firmly associated with black and white cinema.
Recognition
Boris Kaufman was awarded the Academy Award and Golden Globe for his cinematography in Elia Kazan ’s film “ In the Port ” ( 1953 ) and nominated for an Oscar for the film “ Doll ” ( 1956 , scripted by Tennessee Williams ). In 2002 , two documentaries about the Kaufman brothers were released in Russia: “ Dziga and His Brothers ” by Yevgeny Tsymbal and “All Vertovs” by Vladimir Nepevny (the operator of both was Alexander Burov ).
Filmography
- 1927 - Les Halles centrales (documentary, director and cameraman)
- 1928 - Champs Elysees / Champs-Élysées (doc. Directed by Jean Lo)
- 1928 - March of the Machines / La marche des machines (short film, directed by Eugene Deslav )
- 1928 - 24 heures en 30 minutes (doc. Dir. Jean Lo)
- 1929 - Regarding Nice / À propos de Nice / Nizza (doc. Dir. Jean Vigo )
- 1929 - Les Halles (doc. Directed by Andre Galitsyn , Boris Kaufman, F.R. Lindt)
- 1930 - L'équipe / L'étoile du nord (dir. Jean Lo)
- 1931 - Taris, roi de l'eau (doc, dir. Jean Vigo )
- 1931 - La vie d'un fleuve: La Seine (doc. Dir. Jean Lo)
- 1932 - Le mile [de Jules Ladoumègue] (doc. Dir. Jean Lo)
- 1933 - Zero on Conduct / Zéro de conduite (short, directed by Jean Vigo )
- 1933 - Le client du numéro 16 (short, directed by Jean Mami)
- 1933 - Une vilaine histoire (short, dir. Christian-Jacques )
- 1933 - Le chemin du bonheur (dir. Jean Mami)
- 1933 - Atalanta / L'Atalante (dir. Jean Vigo )
- 1934 - Le Père Lampion (dir. Christian-Jacques )
- 1934 - Zouzou (dir. Marc Allegre)
- 1934 - Perfidie (short, dir. Roger Capellani )
- 1934 - Torture (short, dir. Roger Capellani )
- 1934 - Lui .. ou .. elle (short, directed by Roger Capellani )
- 1935 - Lucrezia Borgia / dir. Abel Hans
- 1935 - Les berceaux (short, dir. Dimitri Kirsanov )
- 1935 - La fontaine d'Aréthuse (short, directed by Dimitri Kirsanov )
- 1935 - Jeune fille au jardin (short, directed by Dimitri Kirsanov )
- 1935 - Quand minuit sonnera (dir. Leo Joannon)
- 1936 - Le petit chemin (short, dir. D.B. Maurice)
- 1936 - L'homme sans coeur (dir. Leo Joannon)
- 1936 - Oeil-de-Lynx, détective (dir. Pierre-Jean Ducsey )
- 1936 - On ne roule pas Antoinette (dir. Paul Madye)
- 1937 - Cinderella / Cinderella (dir. Pierre Caron)
- 1937 - Êtes-vous jalouse? (dir. Henri Chaumet)
- 1937 - Les hommes sans nom (dir. Jean Valle)
- 1938 - Fort Dolorès (directed by Rene Le Enaffe)
- 1938 - Les gaietés de l'exposition (dir Ernest Ayo )
- 1938 - Le veau gras (dir. Serge de Poligny)
- 1939 - Sérénade (dir. Jean Bouillay)
- 1943 - [Toscanini,] Hymn of the Nations (musical, dir. Alexander Hammid, Irwin Lerner)
- 1944 - A Better Tomorrow (doc. Dir. Alexander Hammid)
- 1945 - Capital Story (doc. Directed by Henvar Rodakevich)
- 1945 - The Southwest / Land of Enchantment (doc., Directed by Henwar Rodakevich)
- 1946 - Journey Into Medicine (doc., Directed by Willard van Dyke)
- 1947 - The Lambertville Story (musical, dir. Robert Blovelt)
- 1948 - Terribly Talented (doc., Directed by Alexander Hammid and Willard Van Dyke)
- 1948 - Osmosis (doc. Willard Van Dyke)
- 1950 - Preface to a Life (short, directed by William S. Reznik)
- 1950 - The Tanglewood Story (musical, directed by Larry Madison)
- 1951 - The Gentleman in Room 6 (short, dir. Alexander Hammid)
- 1952 - Leonardo da Vinci (doc., Directed by Luciano Emmer and Enrico Grasse)
- 1952 - And the Earth Shall Give Back Life (doc, directed by Victor Jurgens)
- 1953 - In the Port / On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan )
- 1954 - Garden of Eden (dir. Max Nossek)
- 1954 - Within Man's Power (doc, dir. Niklas Webster)
- 1955 - Singing in the Dark (dir. Max Nossek)
- 1955 - A Family Affair (doc., Directed by Irwin Jacoby)
- 1955 - Patterns (dir. Fielder Cook)
- 1956 - Doll (dir. Elia Kazan )
- 1956 - Crowded Paradise (dir. Fred Pressburger and Ben Graidas)
- 1956 - 12 Angry Men (directed by Sidney Lumet )
- 1958 - Home Again (doc. Directed by Irwin Jacoby)
- 1958 - Such a Woman (directed by Sidney Lumet )
- 1959 - From the breed of fugitives (dir. Sidney Lumet )
- 1960 - Splendor in the Grass (directed by Elia Kazan )
- 1962 - Long Day's Journey Into Night (directed by Sidney Lumet in the drama of O. O'Neill )
- 1963 - Gone Are the Days! (dir. Nicklas Webster)
- 1963 - All the Way Home (dir. Alex Seagal)
- 1963 - The World of Henry Orient (dir. George Roy Hill )
- 1964 - The Pawnbroker / The Pawnbroker (directed by Sidney Lumet )
- 1964 - Film / Film (short, dir. Alan Schneider , script S. Beckett )
- 1965 - The Group / directed by Sidney Lumet
- 1968 - Bye Bye Braverman (directed by Sidney Lumet )
- 1968 - The Brotherhood (dir. Martin Ritt )
- 1968 - Up Tight! (dir. Jules Dassin )
- 1969 - Tell Me That You Love Me, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (dir. Otto Preminger )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 138411948 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Birth record on August 24, 1903 is available on the Jewish Genealogy website JewishGen.org. Patronymic is written as “Abel o HIV” (the same with the older brother). Parents - Abel Kushelevich Kaufman and Haya-Esther Rahmielevna Halpern.
- ↑ Dziga and his brothers (Russian) , Museum TSSDF . Date of treatment June 29, 2017.
- ↑ Jean Vigo. - M: "Art", 1979. - S. 216.