Boris Barnet
Directing
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Acting Credits
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Directed
Biography
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
The Cinema Language of an Era: Boris Barnet
2024
Secret Agent
1947
as Gen. von Kühn
Sinegoriya
1946
as Arseniy Petrovich Gay
Dark Is the Night
1945
A Night in September
1939
By the Bluest of Seas
1936
Outskirts
1933
The Backlog!
1930
The Living Corpse
1929
as Pickpocket
Storm Over Asia
1928
as English soldier, pipe smoker
The House on Trubnaya
1928
as passerby (uncredited)
Moscow in October
1927
Miss Mend
1926
as Barnet, reporter
The Case of the Three Million
1926
as Journalist (uncredited)
Chess Fever
1925
as Cameo (uncredited)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
1924
as Jeddy - The Cowboy