Yuliya Solntseva

Yuliya Solntseva
Born	Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova (1901-08-07)7 August 1901 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	28 October 1989(1989-10-28) (aged 88) Moscow, USSR
Occupation(s)	Film director Actress
Years active	1924–1979
Spouse	Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Russian: Ю́лия Ипполи́товна Со́лнцева; born Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova, 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924). She is the first female winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes film festival in the 20th century and the first woman to win a directing prize at any of the major European film festivals, for the film Chronicle of Flaming Years, a war drama about Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941.

Biography

Solntseva directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979. She was married to director Aleksandr Dovzhenko and collaborated with him on his later films, including Michurin (1949), for which she was awarded a Stalin Prize.

For The Chronicle of Flaming Years she won the Best Director award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR when she turned 80.

Selected filmography

• Aelita (1924)
• The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom (1924)
• Earth (1930)
• Ivan (1932)
• Shchors (1939)
• Ukraine in Flames (1943)
• Poem of the Sea (1958)
• Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
• The Enchanted Desna (1964)

Honours and awards

• Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1949) - for the film Michurin (1948)
• All-Union Film Festival (1959) - A special honorary diploma film "Poem of the Sea"
• Cannes International Film Festival (1961) - Award for Best Director for the film "Chronicle of Flaming Years"
• International Film Festival in London (1962) - Honorary diploma for the film "Poem of the Sea"
• San Sebastián International Film Festival (1965) - Special Diploma of the Jury "for the artistic and technical merits" of the film "Enchanted Desna"
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1981)
• Order of Lenin

External links

• Yuliya Solntseva at IMDb