Yuliya Solntseva
Yuliya Solntseva | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 October 1989 | (aged 88)
Occupation(s) | Film director, actress |
Years active | 1939–1979 |
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Russian: Юлия Ипполитовна Солнцева; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet film director and actress who starred in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924). She 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.[1] She was named a People's Artist of the USSR when she turned 80.
Selected filmography
- Aelita (1924)
- Earth (1930)
- Ivan (1932)
- Shchors (1939)
- Ukraine in Flames (1943)
- Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
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
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Chronicle of Flaming Years". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 21 February 2009.
External links
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2010
- 1901 births
- 1989 deaths
- Russian silent film actresses
- Russian film actresses
- Russian film directors
- Soviet film directors
- Soviet film actresses
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Stalin Prize winners
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Women film directors
- Actresses from Moscow
- 20th-century Russian actresses