FILM DIRECTOR

Arnold Fanck

1889 - 1974

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Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Fanck has received more than 87,685 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Fanck is the 622nd most popular film director, the 3,318th most popular biography from Germany and the 34th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Arnold Fanck ranks 622 out of 2,041. Before him are Georges Franju, Andrew Birkin, Tran Anh Hung, Richard C. Sarafian, John Madden, and Paul Greengrass. After him are Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Sergei Gerasimov, Peter Hyams, Yuri Ilyenko, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Natacha Rambova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Arnold Fanck ranks 148. Before him are Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Maria Dąbrowska, Angelo Iachino, Ludwig Renn, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Alexander Vertinsky. After him are Claude Rains, Subhi Bey Barakat, Luo Yixiu, Shōji Nishimura, Reggie Walker, and Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. Among people deceased in 1974, Arnold Fanck ranks 115. Before him are Cornelius Ryan, Pink Anderson, Stanisława Leszczyńska, Kurt Hahn, Mikheil Chiaureli, and Richard Huelsenbeck. After him are Ernesto Vidal, Karl Hohmann, André Marie, Silvio Moser, Zeffiro Furiassi, and Rashid Nezhmetdinov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arnold Fanck ranks 3,318 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz von Opel (1899), Vincent Lübeck (1654), Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Richard Huelsenbeck (1892), and Princess Catherine of Württemberg (1821). After him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785), Georg Pencz (1500), Abraham Geiger (1810), Heinz Flohe (1948), Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), and Annalena Baerbock (1980).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Arnold Fanck ranks 34. Before him are Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Peter Stein (1937), Bernd Eichinger (1949), Fatih Akin (1973), Werner Schroeter (1945), and Christian Petzold (1960). After him are Konrad Wolf (1925), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Marc Forster (1969), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), and Michael Verhoeven (1938).

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