FILM DIRECTOR

Boris Barnet

1902 - 1965

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Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Barnet has received more than 73,316 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Boris Barnet is the 515th most popular film director (up from 684th in 2019), the 948th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,220th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 73k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Boris Barnets by language

Over the past year Boris Barnet has had the most page views in the with 28,515 views, followed by English (8,962), and French (5,012). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Crimean Tatar (647.50%), Chechen (611.76%), and Volapük (153.66%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Boris Barnet ranks 515 out of 2,041. Before him are Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, and Fernando Solanas. After him are Mike Leigh, Néstor Almendros, James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, Claude Autant-Lara, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Boris Barnet ranks 126. Before him are Andrew Irvine, Regina Jonas, Peng Zhen, Tallulah Bankhead, Toyen, and Eric Liddell. After him are Josef Krips, Nordahl Grieg, Virginio Rosetta, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Louis Beel, and Oscar Cullmann. Among people deceased in 1965, Boris Barnet ranks 84. Before him are Alfredo Guzzoni, Kōdō Sawaki, Louis Harold Gray, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Abraham Fraenkel, and Wilhelm Worringer. After him are Princess Pauline of Württemberg, Lee Hoi-chuen, Vittorio Jano, Fred Quimby, Johann Kremer, and Erik Heinrichs.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Barnet ranks 948 out of 3,761. Before him are Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin (1734), Anatoly Dobrynin (1919), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Dmitry of Tver (1299), and Sergei Kruglov (1907). After him are Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), Eudoxia Streshneva (1608), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), and Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Boris Barnet ranks 17. Before him are Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), and Gleb Panfilov (1934). After him are Mikhail Romm (1901), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), and Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938).

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Filmography

Outskirts
Director
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Mar 25o 19336.7 / 10
By the Bluest of Seas
Director
Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working as sailor and mechanic for the fishing boats of the "Lights of the Communism" kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love with the beautiful Masha.
Apr 20o 19366.9 / 10
The Girl with the Hat Box
Director
The charming Natasha works in a hat shop, sharing her small apartment with a penniless student. A supposedly worthless lottery ticket from her employer turns into a gold mine, leading to a madcap chase for the ticket.
Apr 19o 19276.8 / 10