Boris Kaufman

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Boris Kaufman (originally Russian Борис Абелевич Кауфман / Boris Abelewitsch Kaufman ; born August 24, 1906 in Białystok , now Poland ; † June 24, 1980 in New York City ) was an American cameraman . In 1955 he was awarded the Oscar and the Golden Globe .

Life

Boris Kaufman was the younger brother of the documentary filmmaker Dziga Wertow and the cameraman Michail Kaufman . He comes from a Jewish- intellectual family from the Polish city of Białystok, which belonged to Russia until 1918 . After the Russian October Revolution of 1917, his parents moved west with him to the re-emerging Poland, while his brothers went to the Soviet Union . The brothers never met again and only stayed in touch by letter.

Kaufman went to Paris to the Sorbonne and after graduating worked with the French filmmaker Jean Vigo . At the beginning of the Second World War , Boris Kaufman fought in the French army against Nazi Germany . After the French surrender , he emigrated to Canada .

In 1942 he went to the USA , where he worked as a cameraman for reports and documentaries. In 1954 Elia Kazan hired him for the feature film Die Faust im Nacken , which brought him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for best camera. In the following years he worked mainly with Sidney Lumet in addition to Kazan . Kaufmann led the camera in his debut film The Twelve Jurors . In 1970 he finished his work as a cameraman. In 1979 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955

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