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Biography
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924). She is the first female winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director in the 20th century and the first woman to win a directing prize at any of the major European film festivals, for the film Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), a war drama about Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation in 1941.
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Awards & recognition
- Stalin Prize · 1949
- Dovzhenko Gold Medal
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Merited Artist of the RSFSR
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- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the USSR
