
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. 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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-06-18
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire
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Cast
Chess Fever
19256.3 / 10
Miss Mend
19265.6 / 10
The Backlog!
19300.0 / 10
Storm Over Asia
19286.4 / 10
A Night in September
19395.0 / 10
Secret Agent
19475.3 / 10
Moscow in October
19270.0 / 10
The House on Trubnaya
19286.3 / 10
Sinegoriya
19460.0 / 10
By the Bluest of Seas
19366.3 / 10
Dark Is the Night
19454.4 / 10
Outskirts
19336.2 / 10
Crew
A Priceless Head
19420.0 / 10
Masters of Ukrainian Art in Concert
19520.0 / 10
The Wrestler and the Clown
19575.6 / 10
The Girl with the Hat Box
19276.2 / 10
Outskirts
19336.2 / 10
The House on Trubnaya
19286.3 / 10
By the Bluest of Seas
19366.3 / 10
Alyonka
19625.2 / 10
Bountiful Summer
19513.0 / 10
The Thaw
19315.5 / 10
Miss Mend
19265.6 / 10
The Old Jockey
19404.2 / 10
Secret Agent
19475.3 / 10
Whistle Stop
19635.0 / 10
Lyana
19555.8 / 10
Dark Is the Night
19454.4 / 10
Poet
19575.8 / 10
A Good Lad
19434.1 / 10
Annushka
19596.0 / 10
Pages of Life
19486.0 / 10
A Night in September
19395.0 / 10
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3
19410.0 / 10
Moscow in October
19270.0 / 10
The Peasants
19395.0 / 10