Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Kaufman (1897–1980) was a cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, experimental photographer, and member of the Kinoks collective. At VUFKU (The All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration), he was an author, director, and cinematographer of In Spring (1929), one of the most poetic films about Kyiv, where for the first time in Ukrainian cinema, he used a hidden camera and other innovative filming techniques. Later, he directed only one film in Ukraine, An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), which depicted the success of collectivization shortly before the tragedy of Holodomor.