FILM DIRECTOR

Esfir Shub

1894 - 1959

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Esfir Ilyinichna Shub (Russian: Эсфи́рь Ильи́нична Шуб; 16 March 1894, Surazh, Russian Empire – 21 September 1959, Moscow, Soviet Union), also referred to as Esther Il'inichna Shub, was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and editor in both the mainstream and documentary fields. She is best known for her trilogy of films, Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), The Great Road (1927), and The Russia of Nicholas II and Leo Tolstoy (1928). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esfir Shub has received more than 56,432 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Esfir Shub is the 873rd most popular film director (down from 805th in 2019), the 1,529th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,386th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Esfir Shubs by language

Over the past year Esfir Shub has had the most page views in the with 7,159 views, followed by English (5,936), and Spanish (1,776). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (76.53%), German (15.65%), and Spanish (7.90%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Esfir Shub ranks 873 out of 2,041. Before her are Eli Roth, Jeannot Szwarc, Charles Crichton, Michael Winner, Jack Clayton, and Yevgeni Bauer. After her are Nicolas Winding Refn, Jonathan Nolan, Ennio de Concini, Elia Suleiman, Martin McDonagh, and Ivan Ivanov-Vano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Esfir Shub ranks 177. Before her are Kurt Blome, Yakov Frenkel, Henryk Sławik, Edwin Linkomies, Jack Benny, and Surya Sen. After her are Florbela Espanca, Paul Hörbiger, Viorica Ursuleac, Francis Hunter, Arkady Fiedler, and Krešimir Baranović. Among people deceased in 1959, Esfir Shub ranks 130. Before her are Stepan Erzia, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Jacob Epstein, Jerry Unser Jr., Sidney Robinson, and Nicholas Charnetsky. After her are Giuseppe Bottai, Jean Grémillon, Irving Cummings, Nazik al-Abid, Max O. Lorenz, and Hans Henny Jahnn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Esfir Shub ranks 1,529 out of 3,761. Before her are Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), Pavel Fedotov (1815), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909), Olha Bryzhina (1963), and Yevgeni Bauer (1865). After her are Irina Solovyova (1937), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Mikhail Devyataev (1917), Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873), Nikolai Semashko (1874), and Alexander Kokorinov (1726).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Esfir Shub ranks 36. Before her are Ivan Pyryev (1901), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Vladimir Gardin (1877), Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), Alexander Rou (1906), and Yevgeni Bauer (1865). After her are Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Alexandre Volkoff (1885), Lev Atamanov (1905), Yuri Ozerov (1921), and Giorgi Shengelaia (1937).

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Filmography

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Director
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty was pieced together by documentarian Esfir Shub from material recorded between 1913 and 1917, and represents the final years leading up to the Russian Revolution. Through editing, Shub casts a critical, ironic light on the former czarist regime. The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty is the first film in Esfir Shub's trilogy that continued with The Great Road (1927), and concluded with Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II (1928).
Mar 11o 19276.105 / 10
Spain
Director
A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.
Jan 2o 19396.6 / 10
The Komsomol - Chief of Electrification
Director
In this pioneering documentary, one of the earliest Soviet sound films, Shub shot a contemporary chronicle of the progress of establishing electricity across the Soviet nation, a struggle spearheaded by the Komsomol.
Dec 31o 19326.4 / 10