Boris Barnet

Actor, Director, Escritor, Editor

18 de junio de 1902 — 8 de enero de 1965 (62 años)
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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.

Conocido por

  • Al borde del mar azul
    Al borde del mar azul1936
  • Suburbios
    Suburbios1933
  • La muchacha de la sombrerera
    La muchacha de la sombrerera1927
  • Dom na Trubnoy
    Dom na Trubnoy1928
  • Las extraordinarias aventuras de Mister West en el país de los bolcheviques
    Las extraordinarias aventuras de Mister West en el país de los bolcheviques1924
  • Tempestad en Asia
    Tempestad en Asia1928
  • The Adventures of the Three Reporters
    The Adventures of the Three Reporters1926
  • Agente secreto
    Agente secreto1947
  • El luchador y el payaso
    El luchador y el payaso1957
  • Dark Is the Night
    Dark Is the Night1945
  • Un verano prodigioso
    Un verano prodigioso1951
  • The Living Corpse
    The Living Corpse1929
  • Ukrainian Concert Hall
    Ukrainian Concert Hall1952

Filmography

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