- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- June 18, 1902
- Place of Birth
- Moscow, Russian Empire
- Died
- January 8, 1965
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 p…
Filmography
movieThe Cinema Language of an Era: Boris Barnet
2024
movieWhistle Stop
1963 · Director, Writer
movieAlyonka
1962 · Director
movieAnnushka
1959 · Director
movieThe Wrestler and the Clown
1957 · Director
moviePoet
1956 · Director
movieLyana
1955 · Director, Screenplay
movieMasters of Ukrainian Art in Concert
1952 · Director
movieBountiful Summer
1951 · Director
moviePages of Life
1948 · Director
movieSecret Agent
1947 · Gen. von Kühn, Director
movieSinegoriya
1946 · Arseniy Petrovich Gay
movieDark Is the Night
1945 · , Director
movieA Priceless Head
1942 · Director
movieA Good Lad
1942 · Director
movieCollection of Films for the Armed Forces #3
1941 · Director
movieThe Old Jockey
1940 · Director
movieThe Peasants
1939 · Editor
movieA Night in September
1939 · , Director
movieBy the Bluest of Seas
1936 · , Director
movieOutskirts
1933 · , Director, Writer
movieThe Thaw
1931 · Director
The Backlog!
movieThe Backlog!
1930
movieThe Living Corpse
1929 · Pickpocket
movieStorm Over Asia
1928 · English soldier, pipe smoker
movieThe House on Trubnaya
1928 · passerby (uncredited), Director
movieMoscow in October
1927 · , Director
movieThe Girl with the Hat Box
1927 · Director
movieMiss Mend
1926 · Barnet, reporter, Writer, Stunt Double, Director
movieThe Three Million Trial
1926 · Journalist (uncredited)
movieChess Fever
1925 · Cameo (uncredited)
movieThe Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
1924 · Jeddy - The Cowboy