Dmitri Vasilyev (director)
Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev was a Soviet and Russian film director. He was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes in 1947 and 1951.
Vasilyev worked as the assistant director to Sergei Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky. 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 ; co-directed with Yuli RaizmanLenin in October ; co-directed with Mikhail RommAlexander Nevsky ; co-directed with Sergei EisensteinIn the Name of the Fatherland ; co-directed with Vsevolod Pudovkin- Admiral Nakhimov ; co-directed with Vsevolod PudovkinZhukovsky ; co-directed with Vsevolod PudovkinYouth Sports Festival The Mystery of the Eternal Night Over Tissa Operation Cobra, directorAttack and Retreat ; co-directed with Giuseppe De Santis