FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksander Ford

1908 - 1980

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Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; 24 November 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 4 April 1980 in Naples, Florida, U.S.) was a Polish film director and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war, he was appointed director of the Film Polski company.In 1948 he was appointed a professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). Roman Polanski and Polish film director Andrzej Wajda were among his students. Amid an anti-Semitic purge in the communist party in Poland, Ford was stopped from preparing a film on the life of a Jewish educator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksander Ford has received more than 70,741 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aleksander Ford is the 816th most popular film director (down from 799th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 544th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 71k

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  • 50.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Aleksander Fords by language

Over the past year Aleksander Ford has had the most page views in the with 46,977 views, followed by English (9,009), and Russian (2,637). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (1,073.68%), Serbo-Croatian (64.35%), and Persian (58.35%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksander Ford ranks 816 out of 2,041. Before him are Ulu Grosbard, Vladimir Gardin, Gulzar, Matthew Vaughn, Ari Folman, and Edgar Reitz. After him are Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, Andrew Davis, Urban Gad, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Aleksander Ford ranks 222. Before him are Agustín Sauto Arana, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Marina Semyonova, Oddbjørn Hagen, Percy Faith, and Nicholas Kurti. After him are Jenő Vincze, František Kriegel, Louis Jordan, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Teizo Takeuchi, and Tommaso Landolfi. Among people deceased in 1980, Aleksander Ford ranks 175. Before him are Boris Delaunay, Boris Kaufman, George Pal, Arend Heyting, Marcel Langiller, and Katherine Anne Porter. After him are Andrija Anković, Juan García Oliver, Harri Larva, Graham Sutherland, Maurice Genevoix, and Ragnar Gustavsson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 608 out of 1,365. Before him are Karl Doppler (1825), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Polina Gelman (1919), Abraham Lempel (1936), Jacek Kuroń (1934), and Nathan Altman (1889). After him are Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), František Kriegel (1908), Viktor Knorre (1840), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 17. Before him are Grigory Chukhray (1921), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Les Kurbas (1887), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Roman Karmen (1906). After him are Janusz Majewski (1931), David Cherkassky (1931), Lucian Pintilie (1933), Mark Donskoy (1901), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), and Konstantin Lopushansky (1947).

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Filmography

The Eighth Day of the Week
Director
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Aug 26o 19585.3 / 10
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Director
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Sep 2o 19607.349 / 10
The First Day of Freedom
Director
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Jun 8o 19646.4 / 10