FILM DIRECTOR

Ivan Pyryev

1901 - 1968

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Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and pedagogue remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Pyryev has received more than 57,160 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ivan Pyryev is the 795th most popular film director (down from 639th in 2019), the 1,422nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,157th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 57k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ivan Pyryev ranks 795 out of 2,041. Before him are Sally Potter, Baltasar Kormákur, Martin Brest, Michel Audiard, Aleksei Balabanov, and Uwe Boll. After him are Bruno Bozzetto, Arturo Ripstein, George Sidney, Atom Egoyan, Karen Shakhnazarov, and Eldar Shengelaia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ivan Pyryev ranks 184. Before him are Ed Begley, Konstantinos Kollias, Gustav Machatý, Jean Mermoz, Agostinho Fortes Filho, and Alberto Hurtado. After him are Mária Mednyánszky, Curt Bois, Haj Ali Razmara, Sekiryo Kaneda, Grete Hermann, and Jan de Quay. Among people deceased in 1968, Ivan Pyryev ranks 136. Before him are Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Fernando Giudicelli, Juan José Tramutola, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Nikifor, and Vahram Papazian. After him are Muthulakshmi Reddy, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Abel Bonnard, George Constantine, Bobby Driscoll, and Hugo Haas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pyryev ranks 1,422 out of 3,761. Before him are Antonina Makarova (1920), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), Vladimir Potanin (1961), and Aleksei Balabanov (1959). After him are Nikolay Novikov (1744), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), and Abraham of Smolensk (1172).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Ivan Pyryev ranks 30. Before him are Sergei Bodrov (1948), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Tatyana Lioznova (1924), Alexei Uchitel (1951), Mark Zakharov (1933), and Aleksei Balabanov (1959). After him are Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Vladimir Gardin (1877), Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), Alexander Rou (1906), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), and Esfir Shub (1894).

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