Georgi Vasilyev
Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1899–1946)
Georgi Nikolayevich Vasilyev (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Васи́льев; 25 November 1899 – 18 June 1946) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. From 1928 to 1943, together with Sergei Vasilyev (often jointly, though incorrectly credited as Vasilyev brothers), he co-directed several films, including an influential and critically acclaimed Chapaev (1934). Georgi Vasilyev received two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942.
“Georgi Vasilyev” enters the record as soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1899–1946). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Georgi, Vasilyev and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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