Boris Barnet

Aktor, Reżyseria, Scenariusz, Wydawca

18 czerwca 1902 — 8 stycznia 1965 (62 years)
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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.

Known For

  • Na brzegu błękitnego morza
    Na brzegu błękitnego morza1936
  • Na obrzeżach
    Na obrzeżach1933
  • Dziewczyna z pudełkiem
    Dziewczyna z pudełkiem1927
  • Dom przy Trubnej
    Dom przy Trubnej1928
  • Niezwykłe przygody Mr. Westa w kraju bolszewików
    Niezwykłe przygody Mr. Westa w kraju bolszewików1924
  • Burza nad Azją
    Burza nad Azją1928
  • Miss Mend
    Miss Mend1926
  • As wywiadu
    As wywiadu1947
  • Zapaśnik i błazen
    Zapaśnik i błazen1957
  • Dark Is the Night
    Dark Is the Night1945
  • Bountiful Summer
    Bountiful Summer1951
  • Żywy trup
    Żywy trup1929
  • Ukrainian Concert Hall
    Ukrainian Concert Hall1952

Filmografia

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