Boris Barnet is regarded in Europe as one of the greatest artists of Russian cinema, while he’s practically unknown elsewhere. This marginalisation is ironic since Barnet was in many ways the most accessible and Western film-maker from the classic Soviet era. Critics compared his silent comedies to those of Ernst Lubitsch while his lyrical style has much in common with French masters, and contemporaries, Jean Vigo and Jean Renoir.
We have released two of his films; 'By The Bluest Of Seas' (U samogo sinego morya) and 'Outskirts' (Okraina / The Patriots).
