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Boris Vasilyevich Barnet was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British origin. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963.
Boris Barnet was born in Moscow. His grandfather Thomas Barnet was a printer who moved to the Russian Empire from Great Britain back in the 19th century. A student of the Moscow Art School, he joined the Red Army at age 16 and was then professionally involved in boxing. In 1927 he shot his first feature, a comedy film, The Girl with a Hatbox, starring Anna Sten. His 1928 melodramatic film The House on Trubnaya, starring Vera Maretskaya, was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and now ranks as one of the classic Russian silent films.
Encouraged in his early efforts by Yakov Protazanov, Barnet emerged in the 1930s as one of the country's leading film-makers. Amongst Barnet's masterpieces, we find Outskirts (1933), a pacifist story acclaimed at the first Venice Film Festival.
Barnet's postwar work is exemplified by Secret Agent, the first Soviet spy film. The Stalin Prize-winning film was also years ahead of its time in exhibiting Hitchcockian influence and tricks and helped cement Barnet's reputation abroad.
It was Barnet's gift of artistic invention that made him stand out from the crowd of Soviet colleagues. In a Barnet film, a photograph in the newspaper would unexpectedly come alive, and scenes would often end with a detail introducing the next scene. He would begin a scene with a close up, "so that the space is progressively discovered by changing the axis or by camera movement". Among Russian filmmakers professing their admiration for Barnet was Andrei Tarkovsky.
After some years of artistic silence Boris Barnet committed suicide in Riga, Latvian SSR. His body was found hanging from a fishing line. He was survived by wife Alla Kazanskaya and daughter Olga Barnet.
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02 August 1955
A group of Moldavian folk musicians compete for the top Soviet prize. Singer Lyana loves the flautist, but he's fallen afoul of the group leader.
31 December 1930
One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours.
01 August 1959
The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell.
20 June 1931
A story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka (Vera Marinich) as she is pregnant and abandoned by her lover.
10 November 1940
About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, une
26 April 1924
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
25 March 1933
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs.
09 December 1957
It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel.
22 March 1962
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories.
01 January 1942
A group of Russian partisans hiding within a remote forest attempt to destroy a nearby German airfield, all the while assisting a downed French pilot who happens to fall madly in love with a local girl.
21 December 1925
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game.
26 June 1947
Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine.
19 April 1927
A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.
08 March 1951
The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this.
14 February 1929
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand.
20 April 1936
Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.
10 November 1928
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader.
24 November 1963
Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here.
30 October 1927
October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour.
26 August 1946
A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.
01 May 1945
A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.
28 December 1939
A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.
30 August 1928
Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.
01 October 1926
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
01 April 1948
The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant.
28 April 1926
History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.
21 September 1939
Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
31 December 1956
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
05 November 1952
Soviet musical film-concert directed by Boris Barnet. Filmed in 1952 at the Kyiv Film Studio.
01 April 1942
One of Boris Barnet's contributions to the "films for the armed forces" series, about the suffering of Poles under Nazi occupation.
01 February 2024
About the life and work of Boris Vasilyevich Barnet.
