Barnet's reputation abroad. It was Barnet's gift of artistic invention that made him stand out from the crowd of Soviet colleagues. In a Barnet film, a photograph in the newspaper would unexpectedly come alive, and scenes would often end with a detail introducing the next scene. He would begin a scene with a close up, "so that the space is progressively discovered by changing the axis or by camera movement". Among Russian filmmakers professing their admiration for Barnet was Andrei Tarkovsky. French film historian Georges Sadoul once called him “the best Soviet comedy director.” In 1965, after some years of artistic silence, Barnet committed suicide in Riga, Latvian SSR by hanging himself in a hotel room. He was survived by wife Alla Kazanskaya (1920–2008) and daughter Olga Barnet (1951–2021). Filmography As director Miss Mend (Мисс Менд) (1926) The Girl with a Hatbox (Девушка с коробкой)(1927) Moscow in October (Москва в Октябре) (1927) The House on Trubnaya (Дом на Трубной) (1928) Living Things (Живые дела) (1930) The Ghost (Привидения) (1931) The Thaw (Ледолом) (1931) Outskirts (Окраина) (1933) By the Bluest of Seas (У самого синего моря) (1936) A Night in September (Ночь в сентябре) (1939) The Old Horseman (Старый наездник) (1940) output to the screen in 1959 A Good Lad (Славный малый) (1942) Dark Is the Night (Однажды ночью) (1945) Secret Agent (Подвиг разведчика) (1947) Pages of Life (Страницы жизни) (1948) Bountiful Summer (Щедрое лето) (1950) Lyana (Ляна) (1955) The Poet (Поэт) (1956) The Wrestler and the Clown (Борец и клоун) (1957) Annushka (Аннушка) (1959) Alyonka (Алёнка) (1961) Whistle Stop (Полустанок) (1963) As actor The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) Miss Mend (1926) Storm Over Asia (1928) The Living Corpse (1929) Secret Agent (Подвиг разведчика) (1947) References External links 1902 births 1965 deaths 1965 suicides 20th-century Russian male actors Russian male film actors Russian male silent film actors Russian film directors Male screenwriters Russian male writers Soviet film directors Soviet male film actors Soviet screenwriters Silent film directors Soviet people of British descent Russian people of English descent Soviet male silent film actors Suicides by hanging in the Soviet Union Male actors from Moscow Writers from Moscow Suicides by hanging in Latvia 20th-century Russian screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers