FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Rou

1906 - 1973

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Alexander Arturovich Rou (Russian: Александр Артурович Роу; 8 March [O.S. 23 February] 1906 – 28 December 1973) was a Soviet film director. He directed a number of children's fantasy films, based mostly on Russian folklore that were highly popular and often imitated in the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Rou has received more than 52,066 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Rou is the 842nd most popular film director (down from 817th in 2019), the 1,485th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,398th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 52k

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  • 50.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Rou ranks 842 out of 2,041. Before him are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Hong Sang-soo, Raoul Coutard, Benjamin Christensen, Rustam Ibragimbekov, and Rosa von Praunheim. After him are Luis Puenzo, Sergio Martino, András Kovács, Dara Singh, Sergei Loznitsa, and Irwin Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alexander Rou ranks 232. Before him are Olga Taussky-Todd, Kathleen Kenyon, Frank H. Netter, Harri Larva, Johnny Hodges, and Knut Kroon. After him are Herbert Wehner, Alexander Gelfond, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hermione Baddeley, Rolf Singer, and Édouard Artigas. Among people deceased in 1973, Alexander Rou ranks 163. Before him are Louis St. Laurent, Alina Szapocznikow, Joe E. Brown, Kid Ory, David Murray, and Charles Daniels. After him are Hilda Geiringer, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Harold Hotelling, Conrad Aiken, and Gösta Dunker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Rou ranks 1,485 out of 3,761. Before him are Elsa Brändström (1888), Andrey Lukanov (1938), Joseph Bové (1784), Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), and Apollon Maykov (1821). After him are Ivan Kulibin (1735), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Valentin Ivanov (1961), Alla Kushnir (1941), Alexander Gelfond (1906), and Sergei Mavrodi (1955).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Alexander Rou ranks 34. Before him are Mark Zakharov (1933), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Ivan Pyryev (1901), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Vladimir Gardin (1877), and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877). After him are Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Esfir Shub (1894), Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Alexandre Volkoff (1885), and Lev Atamanov (1905).

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