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Boris Barnet
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Biography
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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, starr…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Cinema Language of an Era: Boris Barnet
Secret Agent
as Gen. von Kühn
Sinegoriya
as Arseniy Petrovich Gay
Dark Is the Night
A Night in September
By the Bluest of Seas
Outskirts
The Backlog!
The Living Corpse
as Pickpocket
The House on Trubnaya
as passerby (uncredited)