Boris Barnet

Biography

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. I…

Directed

1. By the Bluest of Seas (1936) — Director
2. Outskirts (1933) — Director
3. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927) — Director
4. The House on Trubnaya (1928) — Director
5. Alyonka (1962) — Director
6. Miss Mend (1926) — Director
7. Secret Agent (1947) — Director
8. A Good Lad (1942) — Director
9. The Thaw (1931) — Director
10. Whistle Stop (1963) — Director
11. The Wrestler and the Clown (1957) — Director
12. The Old Jockey (1940) — Director
13. Dark Is the Night (1945) — Director
14. Annushka (1959) — Director
15. Lyana (1955) — Director
16. Poet (1956) — Director
17. A Night in September (1939) — Director
18. Bountiful Summer (1951) — Director
19. Pages of Life (1948) — Director
20. Masters of Ukrainian Art in Concert (1952) — Director
21. Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3 (1941) — Director
22. Moscow in October (1927) — Director
23. A Priceless Head (1942) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Storm Over Asia (1928) — English soldier, pipe smoker
2. Chess Fever (1925) — Cameo (uncredited)
3. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
4. Outskirts (1933)
5. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) — Jeddy - The Cowboy
6. The House on Trubnaya (1928) — passerby (uncredited)
7. Miss Mend (1926) — Barnet, reporter
8. Secret Agent (1947) — Gen. von Kühn
9. The Living Corpse (1929) — Pickpocket
10. Dark Is the Night (1945)
11. The Three Million Trial (1926) — Journalist (uncredited)
12. A Night in September (1939)
13. Moscow in October (1927)
14. Sinegoriya (1946) — Arseniy Petrovich Gay
15. The Backlog! (1930)
16. The Cinema Language of an Era: Boris Barnet (2024)