Movies: Boris Barnet

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....

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

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

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....

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

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 work did not stay in cinemas for a long time....

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

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war....

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