Mini-Biography:
Boris Barnet was born on June 16, 1902 in Moskau. He was a Russian Actor, Director, known for Njeobichajnie prikljuchenja mistjera Vesta v Stanje Bolshevikov (1924), Zhivoj trup (1928), Djevushka s korobkoi (1927), Boris Barnet's first movie on record is from 1924. Boris Barnet died on January 8, 1965 in Riga. His last motion picture on file dates from 1963.

Biographical Notes
Schauspieler und Regisseur des sowjetischen Kinos, 1902 in Moskau geboren, nach dem Bürgerkrieg in der Roten Armee und einer kurzen Karriere als Profi-Boxer kam Barnet als Schauspieler und Allrounder zu Lev Kuleshov, seine erste grosse Rolle spielte er als Cowboy Jeddy im Film "Die sonderbaren Abenteuer des Herrn West im Lande der Bolschewiken" 1924. Im Studio der Mezhrabpom-Rus gelangen Barnet einige der bedeutendsten Film des späten sowjetischen Stummfilms wie "Miss Mend", "Djevushka s korobkoi" oder "Dom na Trubnoi", auch die Umstellung zum Tonfilm schien Barnet keine Schwierigkeiten zu bereiten, doch gerieten seine späteren Tonfilme immer konventioneller. "Starij Najezdnik" aus dem Jahre 1940 wurde erst 1959 uraufgeführt, "Novgorodcy" (1943) blieb jahrzehntelang unter Verschluss. "Die Heldentaten eines Kundschafters" von 1948 blieb der letzte grosse Erfolg des Regisseurs, wohl auch, weil trotz des propagandistischen Hintergrunds ein intelligentes Drehbuch dem Film zu Grunde lag.
Enttäuscht über den Misserfolg seiner späteren Filme, beging Barnet 1965 Selbstmord (lhg 2011)

FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1963: Polustanok (A small station, The Whistle-Stop) (Director), with Nadezhda Rumjantseva,
1962: Aljenka (Alyonka) (Director), with Nikolaj Bogoljubov, , Vasilij Shukshin,
1959: Anushka (Annushka) (Director), with Irina Skobtseva, , ,
1957: Borets i kloun (The Wrestler and the Clown) (Director), with Stanislav Chekan, , Jurij Medvedev,
1956: Poet (Director), with Nikolaj Krjuchkov, , Zoja Fjodorova,
1955: Ljana (Lyana) (Director),
1952: Koncert masterov ukrainskovo isskustva (Masters of Ukrainian Art in Concert) (Director),
1950: Shchedroje ljeto (A Bounteous Summer, Bountiful Summer, A Beautiful Summer) (Director), with Tatjana Barysheva, Nina Arkhipova, Marina Debutova,
1948: Podvig Razvedchika (The Exploits of an Intelligence Agent, Secret Agent) (Director), with Pavel Kadochnikov, , ,
1946: Stranitsi Zhisni (Pages from a Life) (Director),
1946: Sinegorija (The Blue Mountains) (Cast), Directed by Erast Garin, Khesia Lokshina,
1945: Odnazhdij nochju (Once One Night, Dark Is the Night, One Night) (Director), with I Radchenko, Boris Andrejev, Ivan Kuznetsov,
1943: Slavnij Malij (Novgorodcy) (A good Lad, Novgorod Citizens) (Director), with Jevgenij Grigorjev, , ,
1942: Bezhchennaja Golova (A Priceless Head, Fighting Film Album no. 10, An invaluable Head, Wartime Newsreel n° 10) (Director), with , Nikolaj Cherkasov, Vera Orlova,
1941: Bojevoj kinosbornik 3 (Fighting Film Album no. 3) (Director: : Muzhestvo), Directed by Peter Bayliss, Konstantin Judin, with , , ,
1940: Starij Najezdnik (The Old Rider) (Director),
1939: Noch v sentjabre (A September Night) (Director), with Emmanuil Abkhaidze, Nikolaj Krjuchkov, Daniil Sagal,
1936: U samogo sinego morja (Director), Directed by Samed Mardanin, with Lev Sverdlin, Nikolaj Krjuchkov, Jelena Kuzmina,
1935: Ljubov' i nenavist' (Love and hate) (Cast), Directed by Albert Gendelshtejn, with Emma Tsesarskaja, Aleksandr Chistjakov, Vjera Maretskaja,
1933: Okraina (Outskirts, Patriots) (Scenario), with Mikhail Janshin, Nikolaj Bogoljubov, Aleksandr Chistjakov,
1931: Ljedolom (The Thaw, Anka) (Director), with , , ,
1930: Proryv (The Breakthrough) (Cast), Directed by Lev Kuleshov, with Z Cesarskaja, I Chitsjakov,
1930: Zhivye dela (Living Things) (Director),
1930: Proizvodstvo muzykalnych instrumentov (The Manufacture of Musical Instruments) (Director),
1928: Zhivoj trup (The living corpse) (Cast: Sailor in tavern ), Directed by Fjodor Ozep, with Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini, Gustav Diessl,
1928: Potomok Dzhinghis Khana (Chingiz-Khan’s Descendant, The Heir of Genghis Khan, Storm over Asia) (Cast: englischer Soldat), Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, W Gontschukow, with Valerian Inkizhinov, A Dedinzew, Anel Sudakjevich,
1928: Dom na Trubnoi (The House on Trubnaya Square, Parasha, House on Trubnaya) (Director), with Anel Sudakjevich, Ada Vojtsik, Vjera Maretskaja,
1927: Moskva v Oktjabre (Moscow in October) (Director), with Vasilij Nikandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Aleksandr Gromov,
1927: La * guerre aérienne chimique (Director),
1927: Djevushka s korobkoi (Moscow laughs and cries, Moscow That Weeps and Laughs, When Moscow Laughs, The Girl with the Hat-Box) (Director), with Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhajlov, Vladimir Fogel,
1926: Miss Mend (Adventures of the three reporters) (Director), Directed by Fjodor Ozep, with Natalia Glan, Vladimir Fogel,
1926: Protsess o trekh millionakh (The Three Millions Trial, Three Thieves, The Trial concerning Three Million) (Cast: Journalist), Directed by Jakov Protazanov, with Igor Ilinskij, , Mikhail Klimov,
1925: Shakhmataja Gorjachka (Chess Fever) (Cast: Der Dieb), Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolaj Shpikovskij, with Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, ,
1924: Na vernom sledu (On the Right Track) (Director), Directed by Aleksej Dmitrjev, with Pjotr Repnin, ,
1924: Njeobichajnie prikljuchenja mistjera Vesta v Stanje Bolshevikov (Mr. West s Extraordinary Adventures in the Bolsheviks Land, Extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the land of the Bolsheviks) (Cast: Jeddy), Directed by Lev Kuleshov, with Vladimir Fogel, Pjotr Galadzhev,

Bibliography
Bücher:
Kushnirov, M., Zhizn' i fil'my Boris Barneta [The Life and Films of Boris Barnet], Moscow, 1977.
Albera, F., and R. Cosandey, editors, Boris Barnet: Ecrits, Documents, Etudes, Filmographie, Editions du Festival international du film de Locarno, Locarno, 1985.

Artikel über Barnet:
Obituary in Kino (Warsaw), no. 2, 1965.
Obituary in Cinéma (Paris), no. 96, 1965.
"Boris Barnet," in Film Culture (New York), Fall 1965.
Kuzmina, "A Tribute to Boris Barnet," in Film Comment (New York), Fall 1968.
"Boris Barnet," in Film Dope (London), March 1973.
Gillett, John, in National Film Theatre Booklet (London), July 1980.
Gillett, John, in Sight and Sound (London), Autumn 1980.
Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), November 1982.
Revue du Cinéma (Paris), October 1983.
Jeune Cinéma (Paris), November 1984.
Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), October 1985.
Eisenschitz, B., "A Fickle Man, or Portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet Director," in Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema, edited by Richard Taylor and Ian Christie, London and New York, 1991.
Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), no. 6, June 1993.
Filmkultura (Budapest), vol. 31, no. 11, November 1995.
Giuliano Vivaldi, Boris Barnet, The Lyric Voice in Soviet Cinema, 2012, www.brightlightsfilm.com/73/73barnet_vivaldi.php

Weitere Quellen:
Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere, Vol I, pg 414f
Une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique 1926-1968, Locarno Filmfestival 2000, Katalog pg 189ff
Kay Weninger, Das grosse Personenlexikon des Films, A-G, pg 252f

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