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Yuliya Solntseva(1901-1989)

  • Director
  • Actress
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Yuliya Solntseva
Yuliya Solntseva was born on 7 August 1901 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a director and actress, known for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko. She died on 29 October 1989 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
BornAugust 7, 1901
DiedOctober 29, 1989(88)
BornAugust 7, 1901
DiedOctober 29, 1989(88)
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  • Awards
    • 5 wins & 2 nominations total

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Known for

Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
Chronicle of Flaming Years
6.8
  • Director
  • 1961
Konstantin Eggert, Yuri Zavadsky, and Izrail Bograd in Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Aelita, the Queen of Mars
6.3
  • Aelita, Queen of Mars
  • 1924
Boris Zelensky in Poem of the Sea (1958)
Poem of the Sea
6.6
  • Director
  • 1958
Life in Bloom (1949)
Life in Bloom
5.8
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director(as Yu. Solntseva)
  • 1949

Credits

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Director

  • Mir v tryokh izmereniyakh (1980)
    Mir v tryokh izmereniyakh
    3.3
    • Director
    • 1980
  • Sergey Bondarchuk in Takiye vysokiye gory (1974)
    Takiye vysokiye gory
    5.1
    • Director
    • 1974
  • Zolotye vorota (1971)
    Zolotye vorota
    5.7
    • Director
    • 1971
  • Nezabyvaemoe (1967)
    Nezabyvaemoe
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1967
  • Enchanted Desna (1964)
    Enchanted Desna
    7.3
    • Director
    • 1964
  • Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
    Chronicle of Flaming Years
    6.8
    • Director
    • 1961
  • Boris Zelensky in Poem of the Sea (1958)
    Poem of the Sea
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1958
  • Revizory ponevole (1955)
    Revizory ponevole
    4.0
    Short
    • Director
    • 1955
  • Yegor Bulychyov i drugiye (1953)
    Yegor Bulychyov i drugiye
    5.8
    • Director
    • 1953
  • Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnanie nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predely ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel (1945)
    Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnanie nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predely ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel
    7.0
    • Director
    • 1945
  • Ukraine in Flames (1943)
    Ukraine in Flames
    6.9
    • Director (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1943
  • Osvobozhdeniye (1940)
    Osvobozhdeniye
    5.3
    • Director
    • 1940
  • Evgeniy Samoylov in Shors (1939)
    Shors
    6.2
    • co-director
    • 1939
  • Bukovina, zemlya Ukrainskaya (1939)
    Bukovina, zemlya Ukrainskaya
    5.9
    Short
    • Director
    • 1939

Actress

  • Earth (1930)
    Earth
    7.2
    • Daughter of Opanas (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1930
  • Dve zhenshchiny (1929)
    Dve zhenshchiny
    • Krekshina - the woman of our day
    • 1929
  • Jimmie Higgins (1928)
    Jimmie Higgins
    • Ellen Wood - His Wife
    • 1928
  • Burya (1928)
    Burya
    • Katia - Lighthouse Keeper's daughter
    • 1928
  • Motele the Weaver (1928)
    Motele the Weaver
    2.8
    • Roza - Motele's sister
    • 1928
  • Yuliya Solntseva and Grigory Rychkov in Leon Kutyurye (1927)
    Leon Kutyurye
    • 1927
  • Yuliya Solntseva and Izrail Bograd in The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924)
    The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
    6.6
    • Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl
    • 1924
  • Konstantin Eggert, Yuri Zavadsky, and Izrail Bograd in Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
    Aelita, the Queen of Mars
    6.3
    • Aelita, Queen of Mars
    • 1924

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Proshchay, Amerika! (1949)
    Proshchay, Amerika!
    5.8
    • assistant director (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1949
  • Life in Bloom (1949)
    Life in Bloom
    5.8
    • first assistant director (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1949
  • Stepan Shagaida in Frontier (1935)
    Frontier
    6.0
    • assistant director (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1935
  • Ivan (1932)
    Ivan
    6.4
    • assistant director
    • 1932
  • Earth (1930)
    Earth
    7.2
    • assistant director (as Yu. Solntseva)
    • 1930

Personal details

  • Alternative names
    • Julia Solntseva
  • Born
    • August 7, 1901
    • Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
  • Died
    • October 29, 1989
    • Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Spouse
    • Aleksandr Dovzhenko? - November 25, 1956 (his death)
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

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  • Trivia
    First woman to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Povest plamennykh let (1961).

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