Portrait of Yuliya Solntseva

Yuliya Solntseva

Directing

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).

Born: August 7, 1901

Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Filmography

1930
Earth

as Vasyl's sister

1930
Two Women

as Krekshina, modern woman

1928
1927
Leon Couturier

as Bella / Margarita Couturier

1924
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl

1924
Aelita: Queen of Mars

as Aelita, Queen of Mars