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name: "Yuliya Solntseva"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yuliya-solntseva"
fi1m_id: "yuliya-solntseva"
imdb_id: "nm0813216"
tmdb_id: 29195
wikidata_id: "Q2547318"
roles: ["Assistant director"]
born: "7 August 1901"
died: "28 October 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-25T00:35:28.187177+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yuliya Solntseva

## Identity

Yuliya Solntseva

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yuliya-solntseva
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yuliya-solntseva
- **IMDb ID:** nm0813216
- **TMDB ID:** 29195
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2547318
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Solntseva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2547318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29195

Assistant director. Born 7 August 1901 in Moscow, USSR [now Russia]. Died 28 October 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Born:** 7 August 1901, Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
- **Died:** 28 October 1989
- **Also known as:** Yulia Solntseva , J. Solntseva , Julia Solntseva , Yu. Solntseva, Юлія Солнцева, Ю. Солнцева
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Solntseva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2547318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813216/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29195

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Earth*](https://film.one/film/earth.md) (85)

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## Biography

Yuliya Solntseva was a Soviet actress and film director. Born in Moscow in 1901, she began her career as an actress in the 1920s, appearing in films including *Aelita: Queen of Mars* (1924) and as Opanas's daughter in *Earth* (1930). She was also assistant director on the latter.

She married director Aleksandr Dovzhenko in 1929 and collaborated with him on several films, including as co-director or assistant on works such as *Michurin* (1949), for which she received a Stalin Prize. After his death in 1956, she completed a number of his projects as director, among them *Poem of the Sea* (1958), *Chronicle of Flaming Years* (1961) and *The Enchanted Desna* (1964). For *Chronicle of Flaming Years* she won the Best Director prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, the first woman to receive the award. She directed fourteen films between 1939 and 1979 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Earth* (1930), Fi1m 85, as Opanas's Daughter — [page](https://film.one/film/earth.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The World in Three Dimensions* (1980), Director
- *Such High Mountains* (1974), Director
- *The Golden Gates* (1971), Director, Writer
- *The Unforgettable* (1967), Director, Writer
- *The Enchanted Desna* (1964), Director
- *Chronicle of Flaming Years* (1961), Director
- *Poem of the Sea* (1958), Director
- *Involuntary auditors* (1955), Director
- *Yegor Bulychyov and Others* (1953), Director
- *Michurin* (1949), Assistant Director
- *Victory in Soviet Ukraine* (1945), Director
- *Ukraine in Flames* (1943), Director
- *Liberation* (1940), Director
- *Shchors* (1939), Co-Director
- *Bukovyna, Ukrainian Land* (1939), Director, Writer
- *Ivan* (1932), Assistant Director
- *Earth* (1930), as Opanas's Daughter · Assistant Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/earth.md)
- *Two Women* (1930), as Krekshina, modern woman
- *Jimmy Higgings* (1928), as Ellen
- *Leon Couturier* (1927), as Bella / Margarita Couturier
- *The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom* (1924), as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl
- *Aelita: Queen of Mars* (1924), as Aelita, Queen of Mars

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Dovzhenko Gold Medal 1980: Dovzhenko Gold Medal (won), for *Mir v tryoh izmereniyah*
- Stalin Prize 1949: Stalin Prize (won), for *Michurin*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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