Dmitri Vasilyev (director)

Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Васильев; 21 October 1900 – 5 January 1984)^[1][2] was a Soviet and Russian film director. He was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes in 1947^[3] and 1951.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Dmitri Vasilyev
Born	Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev[1] (1900-10-21)21 October 1900 Yeysk, Russian Empire[1]
Died	5 January 1984(1984-01-05) (aged 83) Moscow, Soviet Union[1]
Occupation	Film director

Vasilyev worked as the assistant director to Sergei Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky (1938).^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[11][12]

Filmography

• The Last Night (1936); co-directed with Yuli Raizman^[13]
• Lenin in October (1937); co-directed with Mikhail Romm^[14]
• Alexander Nevsky (1938); co-directed with Sergei Eisenstein^[15][16]
• In the Name of the Fatherland (1943); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin^[17]
• Admiral Nakhimov (1946); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin^[18][3]
• Zhukovsky (1950); co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin^[18][19]
• Youth Sports Festival (1951)^[1][2]
• The Mystery of the Eternal Night (1955)^[20]
• Over Tissa (1958)^[11]
• Operation Cobra (1960), director^[21][22][23]
• Attack and Retreat (1964); co-directed with Giuseppe De Santis^[24]