Boris Barnet Movies

About the life and work of Boris Vasilyevich Barnet.

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

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...