Boris Barnet was born on June 18, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire as Boris Vasilyevich Barnet. He was a director and actor, known for The Patriots (1933), The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926) and Secret Agent (1947). He was married to Alla Kazanskaya, Yelena Kuzmina, Natalia Glan and Valentina Barnet. He died on January 8, 1965 in Riga, ...
Trained at the State Film School under Lev Kuleshov and first worked as assistant to Fedor Ozep in 1926. Did his best work as a director between 1928 and 1940, occasionally also appearing in his films.
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Had a medical career before turning to film work.
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Boris Barnet was invited to direct the movie Zagovor poslov (1965) and already started pre-production, but he unexpectedly committed suicide at age 62 in Riga, USSR [now Latvia]. So the movie was directed by Nikolai Rozantsev.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 16-19. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Polustanok
1963
Alyonka
1962
Annushka
1959
The Wrestler and the Clown
1957
Poet
1957
Lyana
1955
Ukrainian Concert Hall
1953
Documentary
Bountiful Summer
1951
Stranitsy zhizni
1948
as B. Barnet
Secret Agent
1947
as B. Barnet
Dark Is the Night
1945
Novgorodtsy
1943
Boyevoy kinosbornik 10
1942
segment "Bestsennaya golova/Priceless Head, A"
Boyevoy kinosbornik 3
1941
segment "Muzhestvo/Manhood"
Staryy naezdnik
1941
Noch v sentyabre
1939
U samogo sinego morya
1936
The Patriots
1933
Privideniya
1931
Ledolom
1931
Pianino
1930
Short
Proizvodstvo muzykalnykh instrumentov
1930
Short
Zhivye dela
1930
Short
Dom na Trubnoy
1928
Moskva v oktyabre
1927
Devushka s korobkoy
1927
Miss Mend
1926
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Secret Agent
1947
Gen. von Kühn (as B. Barnet)
Sinegoriya
1946
Arseniy Petrovich Gay (as B. Barnet)
Dark Is the Night
1945
Col. Belts (German commander)
Proryv!
1930
Short
The Living Corpse
1929
Sailor in tavern
Storm Over Asia
1928
English soldier, pipe smoker
Dom na Trubnoy
1928
Moskva v oktyabre
1927
Miss Mend
1926
Barnet, a reporter
Shakhmatnaya goryachka
1925
Short
Cameo (uncredited)
Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov
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