Born in 1906 
 
Died in 1980
Boris KAUFMAN
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Борис КАУФМАН
Boris KAUFMAN
 
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Biography
Born August 24, 1897 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire.
French and American cameraman and film director, a native of Russia.
The younger brother of Soviet cinematographers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman.
Son of a bookseller. He studied at the St. Petersburg School. After 1917, together with his parents, he left Russia for Poland, and then to France. After graduating from the Sorbonne, he began working in cinema, first documentary, then in fiction. He shot all the films of Jean Vigo, several tapes of Dimitri Kirsanov, worked with Abel Hans, Christian-Jacques, Marc Allegre and others.
With the outbreak of World War II, he went to the front. After the defeat of France, he emigrated to Canada, where he collaborated as a documentary filmmaker with John Grierson, and in 1942 he moved to the United States. He worked constantly with Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, made an experimental "Film" written by Samuel Beckett (1964, starring Buster Keaton). After 1970, he no longer worked in films.
Boris Kaufman died on June 24, 1980 in New York, USA.
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