Movies: Boris Barnet

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

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

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....

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

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October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour. This attempt increased in scale and ambition as they pushed it further, resulting in the theatricalisation of life. In other words, the boundari...

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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....

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....