Boris BARNET
Борис БАРНЕТ
Boris BARNET
USSR, 1927, 60mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Girl with the Hat Box (The)
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Девушка с коробкой

 

 La Jeune fille au carton à chapeau

 Devushka s korobkoy

 
Directed by : Boris BARNET (Борис БАРНЕТ)
Writing credits : Vadim SHERSHENEVICH (Вадим ШЕРШЕНЕВИЧ), Valentin TURKIN (Валентин ТУРКИН)
 
Cast
Serafima BIRMAN (Серафима БИРМАН) ...Madame Irène
Vladimir FOGEL (Владимир ФОГЕЛЬ) ...Le télégraphiste
Ivan KOVAL-SAMBORSKY (Иван КОВАЛЬ-САМБОРСКИЙ) ...Ilia Sneguirev
Vladimir MIKHAYLOV (Владимир МИХАЙЛОВ) ...Le grand-père de Natacha
Eva MILYUTINA (Ева МИЛЮТИНА) ...Marfoucha, la servante
Pavel POL (Павел ПОЛЬ) ...Nikolaï Matveitch, le mari d'Irène
Vladimir POPOV (Владимир ПОПОВ) ...Le contrôleur de tickets
Anna STEN (Анна СТЭН) ...Natacha
 
Cinematography : Boris FILSHIN (Борис ФИЛЬШИН), Boris FRANTSISON (Борис ФРАНЦИССОН)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Release date in Russia : 19/04/1927
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Kinopoisk

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films

Plot synopsis
The first film of Boris Barnet. A working girl is given a seemingly worthless lottery ticket instead of her wages by her unscrupulous employer. The ticket wins her a fortune and a madcap chase ensues to possess the ticket - and the girl's love.

Reviews from Russian viewers
 

Commentaries and bibliography
En images: dix superbes affiches de films soviétiques d'avant-garde, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
1927: The Girl with the Hatbox (Boris Barnet), Shari KIZIRIAN, sensesofcinema.com, 2017
Лента длиною в эпоху. Шедевры советского кино, Neya ZORKAYA, Bely Gorod, 2017
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Rétrospective Boris Barnet à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2024
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Musicales franco-russes, Toulouse (France), 2019
- Le centenaire de la révolution d'octobre 1917 au cinéma Les Carmes, Orléans (France), 2017
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- Ciné-concerts russes au théâtre de poche Montparnasse, Paris (France), 2015
- Fondation Jérôme Seydoux. L'âge d'or du cinéma muet russe (1908-1934), Paris (France), 2015
- , Pézenas (France), 2015
- Cinéma Russie Institut Lumière, Lyon (France), 2012
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2012
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2012
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2011
- Festival du Film de Beauvais, Beauvais (France), 2010
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Russian epopee in the Institut de l'image of Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence (France), 2010
- Rencontres du cinéma européen, Vannes (France), 2010
- Année croisée France-Russia, Different cities (France), 2010
- Sarlat Film Festival, Sarlat (France), 2009
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2008
- Cap Ciné Fribourg - 100 years of Russian cinema, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2008
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2006
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 1998

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