Iolanda Chen

Yu-Lan Chen or Yolanda Chen (; ; Cyrillized Chinese: ) (18 October 1913 – 5 February 2006) was a cinematographer, born in the Republic of China and active in the Soviet Union in the field of Soviet realism.

Biography Chen was a daughter of the revolutionary, diplomat and foreign minister Eugene Chen.

In 1927, after the Shanghai Massacre, she fled China with her father, sister and brothers, reaching Moscow via Vladivostok. She graduated from the cinematography department of the State Institute of Cinematography in 1935 and after that date worked as an assistant cameraman at Mezhrabpomfilm's studios. From 1936 onwards she worked at Soyuzdetfilm. From 1945, she worked as a cameraperson at Mosfilm studios. She is buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.

Filmography All collaborations were with her husband, cameraman Alexander Vladimirovich Shelenkov:

1946 — The Great Glinka, as Director of Photography (DOP) 1947 — The Legend of Neistov; also known as The Tale of the "Neistoviy", as DOP 1949 — Rainis, as DOP 1950 — Far From Moscow, as DOP 1953 — Admiral Ushakov; Attack from the Sea, both as DOP 1955 — Romeo and Juliet 1957 — A Lesson in History, as DOP 1958 — The Communist, as DOP 1960 — Five Days, Five Nights, as DOP 1965 — The Secret of Success 1966 — Tunelul; also known as The Tunnel, as DOP 1967 — Sofiya Perovskaya, as DOP 1968 — War and Peace, parts I, II, and IV, as DOP 1970 — Songs of the Sea 1971 — At Our Factory 1973 — There Lived Three Bachelors, as DOP 1975 — Jarosław Dąbrowski