Georgi Vasilyev

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Years active 1928 - 194674 Name Georgi Vasilyev		Role Film director

Full Name Georgi Nikolaevich Vasilyev Born 25 November 1899 ( 1899-11-25 ) Vologda, Russian Empire(now Russia) Occupation Film director, screenwriter Died June 18, 1946, Ljubljana, Slovenia Movies Chapaev, The Sleeping Beauty, Heroic Deed Among the Ice Similar People Sergei Vasilyev, Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Nikolay Simonov, Boris Chirkov

Georgi Nikolaevich Vasilyev (Russian: Георгий Николаевич Васильев) (25 November 1899 – 18 June 1946) was a Soviet film director, editor, and screenwriter. From 1928 to 1943 together with Sergei Vasilyev (often jointly, though incorrectly credited as Vasilyev brothers) he co-directed several films, including an influential and critically acclaimed Chapaev (1934). Georgi Vasilyev received two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942.

Honours and awards

Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1940)

Stalin Prizes

first class (1941) - for the film "Chapayev" (1934)

first class (1942) - for the 1st series of the movie "The defence of Tsaritsa" (1941)

Order of Lenin (1935) - for the film "Chapayev" (1934)

Order of the Red Star (1944)

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1945)

References

Georgi Vasilyev Wikipedia

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