FILM DIRECTOR

Harun Farocki

1944 - 2014

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Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harun Farocki has received more than 214,636 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Harun Farocki is the 686th most popular film director (up from 729th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 431st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Film Director.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Harun Farocki ranks 686 out of 2,041. Before him are Billy Hayes, Terence Davies, Paul Mazursky, Aaron Russo, Alejandro Amenábar, and Gérard Krawczyk. After him are Bruce Beresford, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Richard Oswald, Claude Pinoteau, John Stagliano, and Bruno Mattei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Harun Farocki ranks 331. Before him are Gregory Jarvis, Connie Booth, Bruno Platter, Yoshitada Yamaguchi, Roberto Miranda, and Patti LaBelle. After him are Naná Vasconcelos, Abdul Qadir, Jan Olsson, Richard Robarts, Anthony Heald, and Ján Čarnogurský. Among people deceased in 2014, Harun Farocki ranks 178. Before him are Marinho Chagas, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Jean Béliveau, Ante Žanetić, Paul Mazursky, and On Kawara. After him are Pierre Bec, Christophe de Margerie, Abdul Qadir, Wu Ma, Gustavo Cerati, and Julio Abbadie.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Harun Farocki ranks 429 out of 1,200. Before him are Hans Tropsch (1889), Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1875), Josef Košťálek (1909), Herbert Feigl (1902), Egon Klepsch (1930), and Prince Adolf of Auersperg (1821). After him are Rudolf Charousek (1873), Václav Tomášek (1774), Jiří Wolker (1900), Hana Brady (1931), Anton Stamitz (1750), and Ivan Hlinka (1950).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Harun Farocki ranks 12. Before him are G. W. Pabst (1885), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), and Elmar Klos (1910). After him are Otakar Vávra (1911), Karel Lamač (1897), Karl Freund (1890), František Vláčil (1924), Ivan Passer (1933), and Vojtěch Jasný (1925).

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Filmography

Videograms of a Revolution
Director
Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 Romanian counter-revolution.
Aug 8th 19927.8 / 10
The Inextinguishable Fire
Director
An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.
Jul 26th 19696.2 / 10
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Director
Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and society. In a work reminiscent of the writings of Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, Farocki examines a range of phenomena including aerial reconnaissance photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Nov 13th 19916.5 / 10