FILM DIRECTOR

Abel Gance

1889 - 1981

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Abel Gance (French: [gɑ̃s]; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abel Gance has received more than 312,540 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Abel Gance is the 168th most popular film director (down from 147th in 2019), the 1,084th most popular biography from France (down from 1,014th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Film Director.

Abel Gance is most famous for his film Napoleon, which was the first film to be released in a widescreen format.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Abel Gances by language

Over the past year Abel Gance has had the most page views in the with 59,857 views, followed by French (47,143), and Italian (9,236). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (109.46%), English (79.95%), and Malagasy (78.75%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Abel Gance ranks 168 out of 2,041. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky, Josef von Sternberg, Bille August, Jan Švankmajer, Masaki Kobayashi, and Joel Schumacher. After him are István Szabó, Max Ophüls, Guillermo del Toro, Roy Andersson, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Nagisa Oshima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Abel Gance ranks 36. Before him are Taha Hussein, Victor Fleming, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Edgar Adrian, and Walter Lippmann. After him are Günther Lütjens, Kim Tu-bong, Hannes Meyer, Li Dazhao, Otto Georg Thierack, and Olave Baden-Powell. Among people deceased in 1981, Abel Gance ranks 30. Before him are Samuel Barber, A. J. Cronin, Karl Böhm, Miroslav Krleža, Georges Brassens, and Max Delbrück. After him are Will Durant, Joseph Murphy, Zarah Leander, Mehmet Shehu, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, and Omar Torrijos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Abel Gance ranks 1,084 out of 6,770. Before him are Desireless (1952), Johannes Tauler (1300), Christine of France (1606), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844). After him are Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), Marion Cotillard (1975), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), and George Steiner (1929).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Abel Gance ranks 24. Before him are René Clément (1913), Jacques Demy (1931), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), and Louis Malle (1932). After him are Jacques Rivette (1928), Jean Vigo (1905), Claude Lanzmann (1925), Chris Marker (1921), Jacques Becker (1906), and Bertrand Tavernier (1941).

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Filmography

J'accuse
Director
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Apr 25o 19197.563 / 10
La Roue
Director
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
Feb 17o 19237.26 / 10
Napoléon
Director
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nearly impossible, and never raised the money to complete the other five. The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
Apr 7o 19277.706 / 10