1937 - 2020
Giorgi Shengelaia (Georgian: გიორგი შენგელაია; Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Шенгела́я; 11 May 1937 – 17 February 2020) was a Georgian and Soviet film director. He directed 14 films since 1961. His film Pirosmani (a poetic film about the great Georgian primitive artist Niko Pirosmanishvili who worked circa 1915) won the Grand Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1974 and went on to international critical acclaim. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgi Shengelaia has received more than 26,245 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Giorgi Shengelaia is the 427th most popular film director, the 750th most popular biography from Russia and the 12th most popular Russian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Giorgi Shengelaia ranks 427 out of 1,580. Before him are Ernst Marischka, Umberto Lenzi, Renny Harlin, Vicente Aranda, Hugh Hudson, and Robert Rossen. After him are Paul W. S. Anderson, Hiroshi Inagaki, Christian-Jaque, Richard Boleslawski, Philip Kaufman, and John Landis.
1893 - 1963
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 421
1931 - 2017
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 422
1959 - Present
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 423
1926 - 2015
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 424
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 425
1908 - 1966
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 426
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 427
1965 - Present
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 428
1905 - 1980
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 429
1904 - 1994
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 430
1889 - 1937
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 431
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 432
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 433
Among people born in 1937, Giorgi Shengelaia ranks 141. Before him are Naji al-Ali, Eduard Streltsov, Alberto Spencer, Joseph Estrada, Lusine Zakaryan, and Luciana Paluzzi. After him are Ned Beatty, Anna Hazare, Aslan Usoyan, Amos Tversky, Aleksandr Medved, and Waylon Jennings. Among people deceased in 2020, Giorgi Shengelaia ranks 220. Before him are Alejandro Sabella, Marcello Abbado, Hau Pei-tsun, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Ewa Demarczyk, and Gisèle Halimi. After him are Kiki Dimoula, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Paik Sun-yup, Terry Goodkind, Theodor Wagner, and Edén Pastora.
1937 - 1987
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 135
1937 - 1990
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 136
1937 - 2006
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 137
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 138
1937 - 1992
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 139
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 140
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 141
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 142
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 143
1937 - 2013
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 144
1937 - 1996
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 145
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 146
1937 - 2002
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 147
1954 - 2020
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 214
1926 - 2020
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 215
1919 - 2020
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 216
1929 - 2020
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 217
1941 - 2020
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 218
1927 - 2020
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 219
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 220
1931 - 2020
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 221
1940 - 2020
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 222
1920 - 2020
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 223
1948 - 2020
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 224
1927 - 2020
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 225
1936 - 2020
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 226
Among people born in Russia, Giorgi Shengelaia ranks 750 out of 2,688. Before him are Mikhail Speransky (1772), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Vasily Tropinin (1776), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (1196), and Sergei Lyapunov (1859). After him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Iosif Gurko (1828), Otto Hesse (1811), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Afanasy Fet (1820), and Emil Wiechert (1861).
1772 - 1839
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 744
1891 - 1918
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 745
1776 - 1857
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 746
1922 - Present
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 747
1196 - 1252
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 748
1859 - 1924
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 749
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 750
1862 - 1919
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 751
1828 - 1901
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 752
1811 - 1874
HPI: 64.77
Rank: 753
1877 - 1966
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 754
1820 - 1892
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 755
1861 - 1928
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 756
Among film directors born in Russia, Giorgi Shengelaia ranks 12. Before him are Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Yuri Norstein (1941), Ladislas Starevich (1882), and Eldar Ryazanov (1927). After him are Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Mikhail Romm (1901), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Boris Barnet (1902), and Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938).
1923 - 1993
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 6
1933 - 2003
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 8
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 9
1882 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 10
1927 - 2015
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 11
1937 - 2020
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 12
1904 - 1985
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 13
1901 - 1971
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 14
1903 - 1983
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 15
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 16
1902 - 1965
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 17
1938 - 2013
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 18