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.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)
Vasilyev worked as the assistant director to Sergei Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky (1938). 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.
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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