Years active 1939–1979 | Name Yuliya Solntseva Role Film director | |
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Died October 28, 1989, Moscow, Russia Parents Valentina Timokhina, Ippolit Peresvetov Awards Cannes Best Director Award Movies Aelita, Earth, Poem of the Sea, The Cigarette Girl from, Shchors Similar People Alexander Dovzhenko, Yakov Protazanov, Fedor Ozep, Boris Andreyev, Zinaida Kirienko | ||
Occupation Film director, actress | ||
Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924 Movie Review w/ Spoilers
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Russian: Ю́лия Ипполи́товна Со́лнцева; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet 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 Russian resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941.
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- Aelita Queen of Mars 1924 Movie Review w Spoilers
- Biography
- Selected filmography
- Honours and awards
- References
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.