Boris Barnet

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Boris Barnet

Born June 18, 1902 · Moscow, Russian Empire

Died January 8, 1965 · aged 62

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…

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Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10 · 1942
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10
1942
MovieWarDrama
Fighting Film Collection No. 10 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 10) is the tenth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in June 1942. It contains two segments: "Bestsennaya golova/A Priceless Head" and "Molodoye vino/Young Wine". Both depict the anti-Nazi resistance, the first in Poland and the second in Romania.
PoetPoet · 1956
Poet
★ 6.01956
MovieDrama
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
LyanaLyana · 1955
Lyana
★ 6.41955
MovieComedyMusic
A group of Moldavian folk musicians compete for the top Soviet prize. Singer Lyana loves the flautist, but he's fallen afoul of the group leader.
The Living CorpseThe Living Corpse · 1929
The Living Corpse
★ 5.31929
MovieDrama
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the BolsheviksThe Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks · 1924
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
★ 6.01924
MovieComedy
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
OutskirtsOutskirts · 1933
Outskirts
★ 6.31933
MovieWarDrama
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
The ThawThe Thaw · 1931
The Thaw
★ 6.01931
MovieDrama
A story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka (Vera Marinich) as she is pregnant and abandoned by her lover.
Storm Over AsiaStorm Over Asia · 1928
Storm Over Asia
★ 6.51928
MovieDramaWar
Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair, shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, unaware that their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.

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AlyonkaAlyonka · 1962
Alyonka
★ 5.51962
MovieComedyDrama
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.

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