Boris Barnet

Boris Barnet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

  • Title: Boris Barnet
  • Popularity: 1.468
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1902-06-18
  • Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire
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  • Also Known As: Борис Барнет, ボリス・バルネット
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Boris Barnet Movies

  • 1924
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    The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

    The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

    5.9 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Chess Fever

    Chess Fever

    6.3 1925 HD

    A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

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  • 1926
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    Miss Mend

    Miss Mend

    5.6 1926 HD

    Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

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  • 1930
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    The Backlog!

    The Backlog!

    1 1930 HD

    One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual...

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  • 1928
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    Storm Over Asia

    Storm Over Asia

    6.5 1928 HD

    In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the...

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  • 1939
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    A Night in September

    A Night in September

    5 1939 HD

    Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

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  • 1947
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    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent

    5.3 1947 HD

    Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of...

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  • 1927
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    Moscow in October

    Moscow in October

    1 1927 HD

    October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour. This attempt increased in scale and...

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  • 1928
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    The House on Trubnaya

    The House on Trubnaya

    6.5 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Sinegoriya

    Sinegoriya

    1 1946 HD

    A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

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  • 1936
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    By the Bluest of Seas

    By the Bluest of Seas

    6.4 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Dark Is the Night

    Dark Is the Night

    4.4 1945 HD

    A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.

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  • 1933
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    Outskirts

    Outskirts

    6.3 1933 HD

    In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire,...

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  • 1942
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    A Priceless Head

    A Priceless Head

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1952
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    Masters of Ukrainian Art in Concert

    Masters of Ukrainian Art in Concert

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Wrestler and the Clown

    The Wrestler and the Clown

    5.6 1957 HD

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  • 1927
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    The Girl with the Hat Box

    The Girl with the Hat Box

    6.2 1927 HD

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  • 1933
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    Outskirts

    Outskirts

    6.3 1933 HD

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  • 1928
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    The House on Trubnaya

    The House on Trubnaya

    6.5 1928 HD

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  • 1936
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    By the Bluest of Seas

    By the Bluest of Seas

    6.4 1936 HD

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  • 1962
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    Alyonka

    Alyonka

    5.3 1962 HD

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  • 1951
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    Bountiful Summer

    Bountiful Summer

    3 1951 HD

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  • 1931
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    The Thaw

    The Thaw

    5.4 1931 HD

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  • 1926
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    Miss Mend

    Miss Mend

    5.6 1926 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Old Jockey

    The Old Jockey

    4.2 1940 HD

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  • 1947
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    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent

    5.3 1947 HD

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  • 1963
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    Whistle Stop

    Whistle Stop

    5.3 1963 HD

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  • 1955
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    Lyana

    Lyana

    5.8 1955 HD

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  • 1945
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    Dark Is the Night

    Dark Is the Night

    4.4 1945 HD

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  • 1957
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    Poet

    Poet

    5.8 1957 HD

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  • 1943
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    A Good Lad

    A Good Lad

    4.5 1943 HD

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  • 1959
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    Annushka

    Annushka

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1948
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    Pages of Life

    Pages of Life

    6 1948 HD

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  • 1933
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    Outskirts

    Outskirts

    6.3 1933 HD

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  • 1926
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    Miss Mend

    Miss Mend

    5.6 1926 HD

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  • 1939
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    A Night in September

    A Night in September

    5 1939 HD

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  • 1941
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    Collection of Films for the Armed #3

    Collection of Films for the Armed #3

    1 1941 HD

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  • 1927
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    Moscow in October

    Moscow in October

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1955
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    Lyana

    Lyana

    5.8 1955 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Peasants

    The Peasants

    5 1939 HD

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  • 1963
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    Whistle Stop

    Whistle Stop

    5.3 1963 HD

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