Boris Barnet

Darsteller, Regie, Autor, Schnitt

18. Juni 1902 — 8. Januar 1965 (62 Jahre)
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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.

Bekannt aus

  • Am blauesten aller Meere
    Am blauesten aller Meere1936
  • Randbezirk
    Randbezirk1933
  • The Girl with the Hat Box
    The Girl with the Hat Box1927
  • Das Haus in der Trubnaja-Straße
    Das Haus in der Trubnaja-Straße1928
  • Die seltsamen Abenteuer des Mr. West im Lande der Bolschewiki
    Die seltsamen Abenteuer des Mr. West im Lande der Bolschewiki1924
  • Sturm über Asien
    Sturm über Asien1928
  • The Adventures of the Three Reporters
    The Adventures of the Three Reporters1926
  • Heldentaten eines Kundschafters
    Heldentaten eines Kundschafters1947
  • Der Ringer und der Clown
    Der Ringer und der Clown1957
  • Dark Is the Night
    Dark Is the Night1945
  • Goldener Sommer
    Goldener Sommer1951
  • Der lebende Leichnam
    Der lebende Leichnam1929
  • Ukrainian Concert Hall
    Ukrainian Concert Hall1952

Filmografie

1947
Secret Agent · as Gen. Von Kühn
1945
1936
1933
1929
The Living Corpse · as Pickpocket
1928
Storm Over Asia · as English Soldier, Pipe Smoker
1928
Dom na Trubnoy · as Passerby (uncredited)
1926
1926
Three Thieves · as Journalist (uncredited)
1925
Chess Fever · as Cameo (uncredited)
1924