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 102,339 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 194th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 205th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Film Director.

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  • 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 194 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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Filmography

In the White City
Director
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Mar 11o 19837.1 / 10
The Salamander
Director
Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
Oct 27o 19716.8 / 10
Charles, Dead or Alive
Director
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is evasive about himself. He gives his family the slip and moves in with a young couple he meets by chance, doing the cooking, reading, drinking, and engaging in philosophical discussions with them. The young couple comes to love Charles. In secret, he stays in touch with a daughter, and the rest of the family hires a private investigator to find him, setting in motion a business take-over that threatens his Bohemian happiness.
Jan 15o 19706.558 / 10