Sergey Dmitriyevich Vasilyev

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,...