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Boris Barnet

Boris Barnet

Actor, Director, Writer

Born June 18, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire

Died January 8, 1965

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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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Filmography

Actor

13

Type

Year

Secret Agent Poster

Secret Agent Feature Film1947

Sinegoriya Poster

Sinegoriya Feature Film1946

Dark Is the Night Poster

Dark Is the Night Feature Film1945

Outskirts Poster

Outskirts Feature Film1933

Proryv! Short Film1930

The Living Corpse Poster

The Living Corpse Feature Film1929

Dom na Trubnoy Poster

Dom na Trubnoy Feature Film1928

Storm Over Asia Poster

Storm Over Asia Feature Film1928

Moskva v oktyabre Poster

Moskva v oktyabre Feature Film1927

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Poster

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Feature Film1926

Chess Fever Poster

Chess Fever Short Film1925

Na vernom sledu Feature Film1925

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

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Feature Film1924

Director

27

Type

Year

Polustanok Poster

Polustanok Feature Film1963

Alyonka Feature Film1962

Annushka Poster

Annushka Feature Film1959

Poet Feature Film1957

The Wrestler and the Clown Poster

The Wrestler and the Clown Feature Film1957

Lyana Feature Film1955

Ukrainian Concert Hall Poster

Ukrainian Concert Hall Documentary1952

Bountiful Summer Poster

Bountiful Summer Feature Film1951

Stranitsy zhizni Poster

Stranitsy zhizni Feature Film1948

Secret Agent Poster

Secret Agent Feature Film1947

Dark Is the Night Poster

Dark Is the Night Feature Film1945

Novgorodtsy Poster

Novgorodtsy Feature Film1943

Boyevoy kinosbornik 10 Poster

Boyevoy kinosbornik 10 Feature Film1942

Boyevoy kinosbornik 3 Poster

Boyevoy kinosbornik 3 Feature Film1941

Staryy naezdnik Poster

Staryy naezdnik Feature Film1941

Noch v sentyabre Poster

Noch v sentyabre Feature Film1939

By the Bluest of Seas Poster

By the Bluest of Seas Feature Film1936

Outskirts Poster

Outskirts Feature Film1933

Privideniya Feature Film1931

The Thaw Poster

The Thaw Feature Film1931

Pianino Short Film1930

Proizvodstvo muzykalnykh instrumentov Short Film1930

Zhivye dela Short Film1930

Dom na Trubnoy Poster

Dom na Trubnoy Feature Film1928

Moskva v oktyabre Poster

Moskva v oktyabre Feature Film1927

The Girl with the Hat Box Poster

The Girl with the Hat Box Feature Film1927

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Poster

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Feature Film1926

Writer

5

Type

Year

Polustanok Poster

Polustanok Feature Film1963

Lyana Feature Film1955

Ukrainian Concert Hall Poster

Ukrainian Concert Hall Documentary1952

Outskirts Poster

Outskirts Feature Film1933

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Poster

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Feature Film1926

2nd Unit / Asst Director

1

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Poster

The Adventures of the Three Reporters Feature Film1926

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