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Uliya Ippolitovna Solnceva (Peresvetova)
Юлия Солнцева
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7 August 1901 - 29 October 1989
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She was born on August 7, 1901 in Moscow. She studied at the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. Later she entered the State Institute of Musical Drama. She made her film debut in 1924, playing the main role in Yakov Protazanov’s fantastic film Aelita (based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoy). The picture was a huge success and subsequently she starred in leading roles in several films. Among them - "Papyrosnitsa from Mosselprom" (1924, dir. Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky) and "Jimmy Higgins"
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She was born on August 7, 1901 in Moscow. She studied at the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. Later she entered the State Institute of Musical Drama. She made her film debut in 1924, playing the main role in Yakov Protazanov’s fantastic film Aelita (based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoy). The picture was a huge success and subsequently she starred in leading roles in several films. Among them - "Papyrosnitsa from Mosselprom" (1924, dir. Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky) and "Jimmy Higgins" (1928, dir. George Tasin, based on the novel by Upton Sinclair).
However, her acting career did not last last last appear on the screen in 1930 in the small role of Opanas' daughter in the film of her husband, director Alexander Dovzhenko "Earth" and later worked as his assistant in the films "Ivan" (1932) and "Aerograd" (1935). Since 1939, Yulia Solntseva, co-director of Dovzhenko, took part in the creation of feature films Shchors (1939), Michurin (1949) and documentary Liberation (1940), The Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine (1943) and Victory in the Right-Bank Urain (1945). In 1949, for the film Michurin was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. As an independent director, she made a documentary film "Bukovina - the land of Ukraine" (1940), a film-performance "Egor Bulychov and others" (1953, according to Maxim Gorky) and a short feuilleton "Investigators involuntarily" (1955). After the death of Dovzhenko, Yulia Solntseva staged a number of films based on his scripts: “Poem about the Sea” (1958), “The Tale of Flame Years” (1961), “Enchanted Gum” (1963), “Unforgettable” (1967), thus trying to realize the unfinished projects of her husband. The most successful work of Solntseva as a director was the heroic film story "The Tale of Flame Years", which received the prize for best director at the international festival in Cannes. After a biographical film about the creative path of Alexander Dovzhenko Golden Gate (1970), she filmed "Such High Mountains" (1974), a poetic story about the life of a rural teacher and social-production "The World in Three Dimensions" (1979). She took an active part in the preparation for publication of the collection of works by Alexander Dovzhenko. People's Artist of the USSR (1981).