FILM DIRECTOR

Dariush Mehrjui

1939 - 2023

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Dariush Mehrjui (Persian: داریوش مهرجویی‎; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s, which also included directors Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. His second film, The Cow (1969), is considered to be the first film of this movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dariush Mehrjui has received more than 300,526 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Dariush Mehrjui is the 207th most popular film director (up from 793rd in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Iran (up from 304th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Film Director.

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  • 300k

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  • 60.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 207 out of 2,041. Before him are Vsevolod Pudovkin, Vincente Minnelli, Mike Newell, Amos Gitai, Douglas Sirk, and Claude Lanzmann. After him are Danny Boyle, Lina Wertmüller, Joe D'Amato, Thea von Harbou, Alan J. Pakula, and Mahesh Bhatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 73. Before him are Marco Bellocchio, Gangubai Kothewali, Leland H. Hartwell, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Helmut Haller, and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. After him are Susumu Tonegawa, Claudio Magris, Joaquim Chissano, Ratko Janev, Milva, and Amarildo Tavares da Silveira. Among people deceased in 2023, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 94. Before him are Frank Borman, Viktor Belenko, Gianni Vattimo, Thomas Williams, Françoise Gilot, and Luis Garavito. After him are Ruud Geels, Dmitry Utkin, Matteo Messina Denaro, Shane MacGowan, Bo Larsson, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 151 out of 631. Before him are Teispes (-675), Phraates IV (-90), Al-Bayhaqi (994), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), and Abu Nasr Mansur (960). After him are Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864), Amytis of Media (-630), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Vologases IV (150), and Ibn Babawayh (918).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Dariush Mehrjui ranks 2. Before him are Abbas Kiarostami (1940). After him are Jafar Panahi (1960), Barbet Schroeder (1941), Asghar Farhadi (1972), Shirin Neshat (1957), Majid Majidi (1959), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Ali Hatami (1944), Hossein Shahabi (1967), and Bahman Ghobadi (1969).

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