Dmitri Vasilyev (director)

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

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]}

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]

References

1. "Дмитрий Иванович Васильев". Мосфильм (in Russian).
2. "Дмитрий Васильев (режиссёр)". КиноПоиск (in Russian). 2025-09-21.
3. Posolʹstvo (U.S.), Soviet Union (20 August 1947). Information Bulletin. p. 11.
4. "Дмитрий Иванович Васильев". kino-teatr.ru [ru] (in Russian). 2024-09-28.
5. "Лауреаты Сталинской премии в области искусства и литературы за работы в кинематографе 1951 года". Первые в кино (in Russian). 2024-09-28.
6. "Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин". ТАСС (in Russian). 2025-09-21.
7. 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)
8. "Дмитрий Иванович Васильев". Большая энциклопедия Кирилла и Мефодия [ru] (in Russian). 2024-09-28.
9. Bordwell, David (2020-10-07). The Cinema of Eisenstein. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-15909-7.
10. Leyda, Jay (1983-08-21). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-691-00346-7.
11. Navarro, Antonio José (2018-03-08). Choque de titanes: 50 películas fundamentales sobre la Guerra Fría. Editorial UOC. ISBN 978-84-9116-981-9.
12. Fedorov, Alexander (2016). "Трансформации образа западного мира на советском и российском экранах" [Transformations of the image of the Western world on Soviet and Russian screens]. mediagram.ru (in Russian). p. 63. Archived from the original on 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
13. Leyda, Jay (1983-08-21). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. p. 441. ISBN 978-0-691-00346-7.
14. Leyda, Jay (1983-08-21). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, With a New Postscript and a Filmography Brought Up to the Present. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00346-7.
15. Grant, Barry Keith (2007). Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Schirmer Reference. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-02-865793-6.
16. Аннинский, Лев (2005). Жизнь Иванова (in Russian). Вагриус. p. 848. ISBN 9785969700819.
17. ZOR, Lokman (2020-09-04). SSCB Dönemi ve Bağımsızlık Sonrası KAZAKİSTAN SİNEMASI (in Turkish). Astana Yayınları. ISBN 978-605-5010-90-4.
18. Thomson, David (2010-11-04). The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-0-7481-0850-3.
19. Кичин, Валерий (2014). Начало 50-х стало самым трудным временем для «Мосфильма» (in Russian). Российская газета.
20. "The Mystery of the Eternal Night". Scifist. 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
21. "Ибрагим Барамыков – легенда киностудии «Таджикфильм»". asiaplustj.info (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-09-19.
22. Kudryavtsev, Sergey (1998). Своё кино (in Russian). Dublʹ-D.
23. "Невразумительная операция" (PDF). p. 3.
24. Sideri, Eleni (2023-05-12). Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity. Berghahn Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-80073-986-4.

External links

• Dmitri Vasilyev at IMDb