Yuliya Solntseva

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1901-08-07 (88 years old)

Deathday

1989-10-28

Place of Birth

Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Yuliya Solntseva

Biography

Yuliya Solntseva is a Soviet director and actress, known for The Enchanted Desna (1964), Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She is the first woman to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961).

Acting

1924

Aelita: Queen of Mars

as Aelita, Queen of Mars

1930

Earth

as Vasyl's Sister

1928

1924

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl

1930

Two Women

as Krekshina, modern woman

1927

Leon Couturier

as Bella / Margarita Couturier

Production

1967

1958

Poem of the Sea

as Director

1943

1940

Liberation

as Director

1964

1939

Shors

as Co-Director

1930

Earth

as Assistant Director

1932

Ivan

as Assistant Director

1928

Zvenyhora

as Assistant Director

1967

1971

The Golden Gates

as Director

1967

1971

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