Boris Abramovich Kaufman was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Mikhail Kaufman. Kaufman was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Białystok at the time when the Congress Poland was a part of the Russian Empire. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Poland regained its independence, and Boris, together with his parents, moved to Poland. Wikipedia
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Boris Kaufman, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shot Jean Vigo's oeuvre and helped introduce a neo-realistic style into American films, was born on August 24, 1897 in Bialystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. The youngest son of librarians, www.imdb.com/name/nm0442100/
