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Sergey Dmitriyevich Vasilyev
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Born:
Oct. 22, 1900, Moscow
Died:
Dec. 16, 1959, Moscow (aged 59)
Notable Works:
“Chapayev”
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Sergey Dmitriyevich Vasilyev

Russian director
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Sergey Dmitriyevich Vasilyev (born Oct. 22, 1900, Moscow—died Dec. 16, 1959, Moscow) was a motion-picture director whose outstanding films deal with the role of the Communist Party in the Russian Civil War (1918–20) in a style that foreshadows the grand-scale Russian films of the 1930s. Most of these were co-directed with Georgy Vasilyev (1899–1946); together they were known as the “V Brothers,” although they were not related.

Sergey graduated from the Institute of Screen Art, Leningrad, and by the mid-1920s was directing documentaries with Georgy Vasilyev. In 1934 they wrote, produced, and directed their most important picture, Chapayev, a sweeping Civil War tale of a Bolshevik guerrilla leader that influenced the “big films” that followed.

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