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FILM DIRECTOR

Andrzej Żuławski

1940 - 2016

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Andrzej Żuławski (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi]; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Żuławski has received more than 1,110,751 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Andrzej Żuławski is the 91st most popular film director (up from 101st in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 67th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Andrzej Żuławski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his surrealist films, such as "The Devil" (1977), "Possession" (1981), and "L'important c'est d'aimer" (1984).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 91 out of 1,581Before him are Zhang Yimou, Carlos Saura, Satyajit Ray, René Clair, Christopher Nolan, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are Wolfgang Petersen, Tony Scott, Kenji Mizoguchi, George A. Romero, William Hanna, and Howard Hawks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 42Before him are Anna Karina, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Peter Fonda, Dario Argento, James Caan, and Tabaré Vázquez. After him are H. R. Giger, Eduardo Galeano, Raquel Welch, George A. Romero, Mario Andretti, and Nancy Sinatra. Among people deceased in 2016, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 30Before him are Alvin Toffler, Elie Wiesel, Prince, Harper Lee, Pierre Boulez, and John Glenn. After him are Carrie Fisher, Nancy Reagan, Věra Čáslavská, Bernardo Provenzano, Gene Wilder, and George Gaynes.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 63 out of 1,083Before him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Selman Waksman (1888), Daniel of Galicia (1201), and John Demjanjuk (1920). After him are Isaac Babel (1894), Moshe Sharett (1894), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Larisa Latynina (1934), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), and Sonia Delaunay (1885).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 1After him are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Maya Deren (1917), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Grigory Chukhray (1921).

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