Background
VASIL’YEV, Georgiy was born on February 25, 1899.
Film director and scriptwriter
VASIL’YEV, Georgiy was born on February 25, 1899.
Studied at Warsaw Polytech Institute. Then under 1. Pevtsov at the “Young Masters” Theater Studio, Moscow.
From 1923 journalist. Worked for newspaper “Rabochaya gazeta" and journal “‘Zhizn’ iskusstva”. Wrote a number of articles on the cinema.
From 1924 cutter for foreign films at State Film Studio. After merger of Northwestern Film Studio with State Film Studio and Soviet Film Studio he began to work with his brother South Dakota. Vasil’yev in a team known as the “Vasil’yev Brothers”. Worked with and greatly influenced by Eisenstein.