Dmitri Vasilyev
Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev (21 October 1900 – 5 January 1984) was a Soviet and Russian film director. He was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes in 1947 and 1951. Vasilyev worked as the assistant director to Sergei Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky (1938).
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Dmitri Vasilyev
- Name
- Dmitri Vasilyev
- Birth Name
- Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev
- Born
- 21 October 1900
- Birthplace
- Yeysk, Russian Empire
- Died
- 5 January 1984
- Place of death
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russian Empire
- Fields
- socialist realism
- Education
- Moscow Mining Academy
- Honours
- Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Order of the Badge of Honour · Medal In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow · State Stalin Prize, 1st degree · Stalin Prize and 2nd degree
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Due to demands that the film be produced rapidly, according to film historian Jay Leyda, Vasiliev took over much of the direction of the film. Vasilyev’s 1958 film Over Tissa was a major box office success in the Soviet Union, the most viewed film of that year, selling around 45 million tickets, and the third most viewed film of the 1950s.
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• Name — Dmitri Vasilyev • Birth Name — Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev • Born — 21 October 1900 • Birthplace — Yeysk, Russian Empire • Died — 5 January 1984 • Place of death — Moscow, Soviet Union • Occupation — Film director
Filmography
Filmography
• The Last Night (1936); co-directed with Yuli Raizman • Lenin in October (1937); co-directed with Mikhail Romm • Alexander Nevsky (1938); co-directed with Sergei Eisenstein • In the Name of the Fatherland (1943); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin • Admiral Nakhimov (1946); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin • Zhukovsky (1950); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin • Youth Sports Festival (1951) • The Mystery of the Eternal Night (1955) • Over Tissa (1958) • Operation Cobra (1960), director • Attack and Retreat (1964); co-directed with Giuseppe De Santis
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Dmitri Vasilyev died at Moscow.
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Dmitri Vasilyev received Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", State Stalin Prize, 1st degree and Stalin Prize, 2nd degree.
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- 2.Дмитрий Васильев (режиссёр). КиноПоиск. 2025-09-21.
- 3.Posolʹstvo (U.S.), Soviet Union. Information Bulletin. 11. 20 August 1947.
- 4.Дмитрий Иванович Васильев. 2024-09-28.
- 5.Лауреаты Сталинской премии в области искусства и литературы за работы в кинематографе 1951 года. Первые в кино. 2024-09-28.
- 6.Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин. ТАСС. 2025-09-21.
- 7.Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR “On the awarding of Stalin Prizes in the field of art and literature for 1950” (published in the newspaper Pravda on March 17, 1951)
- 8.Дмитрий Иванович Васильев. 2024-09-28.
- 9.Bordwell, David. The Cinema of Eisenstein. Routledge. 2020-10-07. 978-1-000-15909-7.
- 10.Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. 349. 1983-08-21. 978-0-691-00346-7.
- 11.Fedorov, Alexander. Трансформации образа западного мира на советском и российском экранах. mediagram.ru. 63. 2016.
- 12.Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. 441. 1983-08-21. 978-0-691-00346-7.
- 13.Leyda, Jay. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. 1983-08-21. 978-0-691-00346-7.
- 14.Grant, Barry Keith. Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Schirmer Reference. 376. 2007. 978-0-02-865793-6.
- 15.Аннинский, Лев. Жизнь Иванова. Вагриус. 848. 2005. 9785969700819.
- 16.ZOR, Lokman. SSCB Dönemi ve Bağımsızlık Sonrası KAZAKİSTAN SİNEMASI. Astana Yayınları. 2020-09-04. 978-605-5010-90-4.
- 17.Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed. Little, Brown Book Group. 2010-11-04. 978-0-7481-0850-3.
- 18.Кичин, Валерий. Начало 50-х стало самым трудным временем для «Мосфильма». Российская газета. 2014.
- 19.The Mystery of the Eternal Night. Scifist. 2022-09-01.
- 20.Navarro, Antonio José. Choque de titanes: 50 películas fundamentales sobre la Guerra Fría. Editorial UOC. 2018-03-08. 978-84-9116-981-9.
- 21.Ибрагим Барамыков – легенда киностудии «Таджикфильм». asiaplustj.info.
- 22.Kudryavtsev, Sergey. Своё кино. Dublʹ-D. 1998.
- 23.Невразумительная операция. 3.
- 24.Sideri, Eleni. Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity. Berghahn Books. 41. 2023-05-12. 978-1-80073-986-4.
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