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Date of Birth
2 January 1896, Bialystok, Poland, Russian Empire [now Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland]

Date of Death
12 February 1954, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Birth Name
Denis Abramovich Kaufman

Mini Biography

Born in Bialystok, Poland, studied music and enrolled in St. Petersburg Neurological Institute in 1916. Worked on first Soviet newsreel, Kinonedelia (1918-1919), then on subsequent newsreel series (inc. Kinopravda, 1922-1925).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse
Yelizaveta Svilova (1923 - 12 February 1954) (his death)

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Brother of Boris Kaufman.

Brother of Mikhail Kaufman.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1122-1125. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.



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