FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksandar Petrović

1929 - 1994

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Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was a Serbian film director. He was one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Three in 1966 and I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Feather Gatherers) in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandar Petrović has received more than 15,037 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Aleksandar Petrović is the 417th most popular film director (up from 481st in 2019), the 2,368th most popular biography from France (up from 2,611th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Film Director.

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Over the past year Aleksandar Petrović has had the most page views in the with 8,007 views, followed by Russian (5,054), and Serbo-Croatian (4,035). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (660.00%), Ukrainian (78.23%), and Indonesian (73.60%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksandar Petrović ranks 417 out of 2,041. Before him are Walter Ruttmann, Giuliano Montaldo, Michel Gondry, Sergiu Nicolaescu, M. Night Shyamalan, and J. J. Abrams. After him are Merian C. Cooper, Claude Zidi, Bong Joon-ho, Lo Wei, Édouard Molinaro, and Richard Brooks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Aleksandar Petrović ranks 155. Before him are P. Ramlee, Katherine Helmond, Andre Gunder Frank, John C. Bogle, Lennart Skoglund, and Luis García Meza. After him are Walter Brandmüller, Ed Asner, Shakuntala Devi, Amitai Etzioni, Peter Sculthorpe, and René Laloux. Among people deceased in 1994, Aleksandar Petrović ranks 107. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune, Álvaro del Portillo, Christian-Jaque, Elissa Aalto, Vazgen I, and Jean Carmet. After him are Kevin Carter, Vitas Gerulaitis, Walter Lantz, Antoine Pinay, Mehmed Orhan, and Mario Brega.

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In France

Among people born in France, Aleksandar Petrović ranks 2,368 out of 6,770. Before him are Guillaume Postel (1510), Jean Rapp (1771), Gaston Paris (1839), Line Renaud (1928), Jacques Loussier (1934), and Jean Carmet (1920). After him are Boniface, Count of Savoy (1244), Michel Petrucciani (1962), Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876), Maurice Joly (1829), Léa Seydoux (1985), and Claude Zidi (1934).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Aleksandar Petrović ranks 56. Before him are Jacques Copeau (1879), Claire Denis (1946), Christian-Jaque (1904), André Téchiné (1943), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), and Michel Gondry (1963). After him are Claude Zidi (1934), Édouard Molinaro (1928), Jean Eustache (1938), Maurice Pialat (1925), Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), and Jacques Tourneur (1904).

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Filmography

Three
Director
Episodic WWII drama that follows a Yugoslav man through the war as he goes from witness to victim to aggressor.
May 12o 19657.118 / 10
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Director
The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
Mar 27o 19676.8 / 10
The Master and Margarita
Director
Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
Jul 15o 19725.3 / 10