Volodja Semitjov

{{short description|Russian-born Swedish writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Volodja Semitjov | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1 July 1912 | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | death_date = 10 January 1985 (aged 72) | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | other_names = | occupation = Screenwriter | years_active = 1950–1985 (film) }} '''Volodja Semitjov''' (1912–1985) was a Russian-born screenwriter, journalist and novelist who settled and worked in Sweden.<ref>Kwiatkowski p.73</ref><ref>Cowie & Elley p.504</ref> The son of the writer Vladimir Semitjov, the family emigrated to Sweden in 1923. His younger brother was Eugen Semitjov.

==Selected filmography== * ''When Love Came to the Village'' (1950) * ''One Summer of Happiness'' (1951) * ''Four Times Love'' (1951) * ''The Clang of the Pick'' (1952) * ''Bread of Love'' (1953) * ''Young Summer'' (1954) * ''The Girl in the Rain'' (1955) * ''Seventeen Years Old'' (1957) * ''A Lion in Town'' (1959) * ''Every Day Isn't Sunday'' (1959) * ''The Invisible Terror'' (1963) * ''Sailors'' (1964) * ''The Girl from the Islands'' (1964) * ''Här kommer bärsärkarna'' (1965) * ''Mask of Murder'' (1985)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Cowie, Peter & Elley, Derek. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. * Kwiatkowski, Aleksander. '' Swedish Film Classics: A Pictorial Survey of 25 Films from 1913 to 1957''. Courier Dover Publications, 1983.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0783802}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Semitjov, Volodja}} Category:1912 births Category:1985 deaths Category:Russian emigrants to Sweden Category:Swedish screenwriters