Dmitri Vasilyev (director)

Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Васильев; 21 October 1900 – 5 January 1984) was a Soviet and Russian film director. He was a laureate of two Stalin Prizes in 1947 and 1951.

Vasilyev worked as the assistant director to Sergei Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky (1938). Due to demands that the film be produced rapidly, according to film historian Jay Leyda, Vasiliev took over much of the direction of the film.

Vasilyev’s 1958 film Over Tissa was a major box office success in the Soviet Union, the most viewed film of that year, selling around 45 million tickets, and the third most viewed film of the 1950s.