Directing
Yuliya Solntseva
August 7, 1901 – October 28, 1989 · aged 88 Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Yuliya Solntseva is a Soviet director and actress, known for The Enchanted Desna (1964), Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She is the first woman to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961).
