High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Russian: Юлия Ипполитовна Солнцева; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet film director and actress who starred in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita (1924). She directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979. She was married to director Aleksandr Dovzhenko and collaborated with him on his later films, including Michurin (1949), for which she was awarded a Stalin Prize.