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Yuliya Solntseva

Russian film director and actress (1901-1989) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 88

Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924).

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1989Died29 October 19891980The World in Three DimensionsFilm, Director1974Such High MountainsFilm, Director1971The Golden GatesFilm, Director, Writer1964The Enchanted DesnaFilm, Director1961Chronicle of Flaming YearsFilm, Director1958Poem of the SeaFilm, Director1955Involuntary auditorsFilm, Director1949Stalin PrizeAward1945Victory in Soviet UkraineFilm, Director1943Ukraine in FlamesFilm, Director1940LiberationFilm, Director1939Bukovyna, Ukrainian LandFilm, Director, Writer1928Jimmy HiggingsFilm, Ellen1927Leon CouturierFilm, Bella / Margarita Couturier1924Aelita: Queen of MarsFilm, Aelita, Queen of Mars1901Born7 August 1901

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Awards

Stalin Prize1949
Order of Lenin
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Badge of Honour
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Merited Artist of the RSFSR
Dovzhenko Gold Medal

About this person

She is the first female winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director 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 (1961), a war drama about Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941.

Country
Russia
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1989 · aged 88

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