FILM DIRECTOR

Alain Tanner

1929 - 2022

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Alain Tanner (6 December 1929 – 11 September 2022) was a Swiss film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Tanner has received more than 106,054 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alain Tanner is the 373rd most popular film director (up from 411th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 205th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alain Tanner ranks 373 out of 2,041. Before him are Jerzy Hoffman, Veljko Bulajić, Alexander Sokurov, Héctor Babenco, Leos Carax, and Alexandre Astruc. After him are Neil Jordan, Veit Harlan, Giuseppe De Santis, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, J. Lee Thompson, and Saul Bass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Alain Tanner ranks 146. Before him are John Conyers, Jaakko Hintikka, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Eva Schloss, Poul Schlüter, and Christos Sartzetakis. After him are Zillur Rahman, Roger Byrne, P. Ramlee, Katherine Helmond, Andre Gunder Frank, and John C. Bogle. Among people deceased in 2022, Alain Tanner ranks 129. Before him are Margarita Lozano, Anne Heche, Walter Schröder, Uri Orlev, Mario Terán, and Christos Sartzetakis. After him are Tony Sirico, Piet Schrijvers, Yuri Averbakh, Fernando Gomes, Kay Parker, and Jean-Jacques Beineix.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Alain Tanner ranks 195 out of 1,015. Before him are Joachim Raff (1822), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Pietro Lombardo (1435), and Roberto Di Matteo (1970). After him are Leonardo Conti (1900), Julius Maggi (1846), Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), André Abegglen (1909), Adrian Frutiger (1928), and Victor Goldschmidt (1888).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Switzerland

Among film directors born in Switzerland, Alain Tanner ranks 4. Before him are Robert Frank (1924), Marc Allégret (1900), and Arthur Cohn (1927). After him are Henri Colpi (1921), Claude Goretta (1929), Daniel Schmid (1941), Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), Baran bo Odar (1978), and Dani Levy (1957).

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