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Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Russian: Ю́лия Ипполи́товна Со́лнцева; born Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova, 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924).
Yuliya Solntseva was born on 7 August 1901 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a director and actress, known for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958).
Aug 23, 2017 · Born in Moscow in 1901, Solntseva was a key actress in the vibrant Soviet cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. She played the eponymous role in Aelita: The Queen of Mars (dir. Yakov Protazanov, 1924), arguably the first Soviet science fiction film. She was the lead in the lithe comedy The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom (dir. Yury Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924).
Before she was a filmmaker, Yuliya Solntseva was the Queen of Mars. As the title character in the 1924 silent film “Aelita,” she vamps and struts her way around elaborate constructivist...
Aug 11, 2017 · His widow, Yuliya Solntseva, also an acclaimed filmmaker, went on to direct them, and they’ll be screened Aug. 26-27, in the ongoing “See It Big!” series at the Museum of the Moving...
The actress Yuliya Solntseva, best known for the steely allure of her Martian princess Aelita, was the wife of the Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and a brilliant director in her own right. Solntseva assisted Dovzhenko on all of his classic films and, after his death in 1956, brought several of his unrealized screenplays to the screen.
May 30, 2024 · Often obscured by the greater fame of her husband, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva was one of Soviet film’s greatest artists.
