Years active 1928–1959 Name Sergei Vasilyev | Role Film director | |
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Born 4 November 1900 ( 1900-11-04 ) Moscow, Russian Empire
(now Russia) Occupation Film director, screenwriter Died December 16, 1959, Moscow, Russia Movies Chapaev, Heroes of Shipka, The Sleeping Beauty, Heroic Deed Among the Ice, The Queen of Spades Awards Cannes Best Director Award, USSR State Prize Similar People Boris Babochkin, Dmitry Furmanov, Leonid Kmit, Boris Chirkov, Nikolay Simonov | ||
Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilyev (4 November 1900 – 16 December 1959) was a Soviet film director, editor, and screenwriter. From 1928 to 1943 together with Georgi Vasilyev (often jointly, though incorrectly credited as the Vasilyev brothers) he co-directed several films, including the influential and critically acclaimed Chapaev (1934). Sergei Vasilyev was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1948; and received (with Georgi Vasilyev) two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942.
His 1942 film The Defence of Tsaritsyn concerns the 1918 Battle for Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War, a battle in which Joseph Stalin played a prominent role. In 1942, Tsaritsyn, by then renamed Stalingrad, was in the midst of the decisive Battle of Stalingrad, a turning point of the Second World War.