He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954).
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Vigo hired his frequent collaborators: cinematographer Boris Kaufman and composer Maurice Jaubert, as well as art director Francis Jourdain, who was an old friend of his father.