FILM DIRECTOR

Ermanno Olmi

1931 - 2018

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Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for directing Il Posto (1961) and The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1977), which won the Palme d'Or. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ermanno Olmi has received more than 179,033 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Ermanno Olmi is the 349th most popular film director (down from 298th in 2019), the 1,867th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,637th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ermanno Olmis by language

Over the past year Ermanno Olmi has had the most page views in the with 61,271 views, followed by English (17,342), and French (6,380). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (153.03%), Simple English (72.47%), and Malagasy (62.45%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ermanno Olmi ranks 349 out of 2,041. Before him are Ivan Reitman, Jean Girault, George Stevens, John Landis, Georgiy Daneliya, and Stanley Donen. After him are Ray Harryhausen, Mika Kaurismäki, Gustaf Gründgens, Guy Hamilton, Valerio Zurlini, and François Ozon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ermanno Olmi ranks 119. Before him are Yao Wenyuan, Leslie Caron, Reizo Fukuhara, Morris Chang, James Tolkan, and Augusto Boal. After him are Arawa Kimura, Viliam Schrojf, Alfred Schmidt, Zeki Müren, Margarita Lozano, and Marianne Koch. Among people deceased in 2018, Ermanno Olmi ranks 96. Before him are John Young, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Kira Muratova, Adem Demaçi, Belisario Betancur, and Tsukasa Hosaka. After him are Paul Virilio, Jozef Adamec, Margot Kidder, Joseph Kobzon, Alan Baker, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ermanno Olmi ranks 1,867 out of 5,161. Before him are Marco Tardelli (1954), Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483), Hortense Mancini (1646), Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (-130), Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (1776), and Ettore Bastico (1876). After him are Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1413), Paolo Boi (1528), Cangrande I della Scala (1291), Antonio Sacchini (1730), Alessandra Mussolini (1962), and Eugene de Blaas (1843).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Ermanno Olmi ranks 30. Before him are Mario Monicelli (1915), Mario Bava (1914), Marco Ferreri (1928), Ruggero Deodato (1939), Lucio Fulci (1927), and Damiano Damiani (1922). After him are Valerio Zurlini (1926), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), Luigi Comencini (1916), Alberto Lattuada (1914), and Giuliano Montaldo (1930).

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Filmography

The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Director
Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
Aug 28o 19787.584 / 10
Greenery Will Bloom Again
Director
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die. But every story told in this film is a true story.
Nov 6o 20146.6 / 10
Il Posto
Director
With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to receive a promotion soon. There, Domenico meets Antonietta, a young woman in a similar situation as himself. The two form a tentative relationship, but the soulless nature of their jobs threatens to keep them apart.
Sep 21o 19617.642 / 10