Boris Barnet Movies

About the life and work of Boris Vasilyevich Barnet.

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young...

Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend...

Soviet musical film-concert directed by Boris Barnet. Filmed in 1952 at the Kyiv Film Studio.

Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here. Whiling away the time for...

October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour. This attempt increased in scale and...

A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

One of Boris Barnet's contributions to the "films for the armed forces" series, about the suffering of Poles under Nazi occupation.

One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual...