Mikhail Kaufman
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Born into a Jewish intellectual family in Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, Mikhail Kaufman entered cinema after serving in the Civil War, receiving his first practical training as a cameraman on his brother Dziga Vertov’s experimental newsreel series Kino-Pravda. He quickly became known for daring visual techniques, most famously contributing the cinematography to Vertov’s landmark docu…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
