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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 57,001 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Esfir Shub is the 808th most popular film director (down from 688th in 2019), the 1,390th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,127th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 57k

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  • 49.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Esfir Shub ranks 808 out of 1,581. Before her are Julio Medem, Antoine Fuqua, Dennis Dugan, Paul Scheuring, Kajirō Yamamoto, and Gordon Douglas. After her are Chloé Zhao, Alexei Uchitel, Joshua Logan, Ted Post, Gérard Krawczyk, and Gerry Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Esfir Shub ranks 164. Before her are Viorica Ursuleac, James Thurber, Robert Menzies, Walter Piston, Oskar Maria Graf, and José Bustamante y Rivero. After her are Henryk Sławik, Nita Naldi, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Arkady Fiedler, Florbela Espanca, and Yakov Frenkel. Among people deceased in 1959, Esfir Shub ranks 116. Before her are Maxwell Anderson, Sténio Vincent, Fernand Bouisson, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Johan Bojer, and Boughera El Ouafi. After her are Erhard Schmidt, Kathryn Adams, Lou Costello, Alexander Rueb, Max Gerson, and Boris Eikhenbaum.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Esfir Shub ranks 1,390 out of 3,262. Before her are Innokenty Annensky (1855), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Vitaly Churkin (1952), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916). After her are Osip Brik (1888), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Pyotr Durnovo (1842), Alexei Uchitel (1951), and Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Esfir Shub ranks 27. Before her are Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Vladimir Naumov (1927), Boris Barnet (1902), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), and Sergei Bodrov (1948). After her are Alexei Uchitel (1951), Alexander Rou (1906), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Mark Zakharov (1933), Tatyana Lioznova (1924), and Sergey Obraztsov (1901).

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Filmography

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