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Georgi Vasilyev

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Years active
  
1928 - 194674

Name
  
Georgi Vasilyev

Role
  
Film director


Georgi Vasilyev

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