Boris Barnet

Boris Barnet was born in Moscow on 18 June 1902, into a family of English descent: his grandfather had left England for Russia in the nineteenth century. A student at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he enlisted in the Red Army, then became a boxer. Having joined Lev Kuleshov's workshop, he played a cowboy in one of its films in 1924, co-directed a first film in 1926 and made films on his own from 1927 to the early sixties. Honoured Artist of Russia in 1935 and a Stalin Prize laureate, he took his own life in Riga on 8 January 1965.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaBy the Bluest of SeasU samogo sinego moryaBoris Barnet · 1936Cinema