FILM DIRECTOR

Jan Švankmajer

1934 - Today

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Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech retired film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Švankmajer has received more than 724,632 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Švankmajer is the 165th most popular film director (down from 149th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 99th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Film Director.

Jan Švankmajer is a Czech surrealist filmmaker who is most famous for his short films.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.47

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jan Švankmajer ranks 165 out of 2,041. Before him are Peter Greenaway, Kim Ki-duk, Sergio Corbucci, Andrei Konchalovsky, Josef von Sternberg, and Bille August. After him are Masaki Kobayashi, Joel Schumacher, Abel Gance, István Szabó, Max Ophüls, and Guillermo del Toro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jan Švankmajer ranks 57. Before him are Wole Soyinka, Louise Fletcher, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Bettino Craxi, John Surtees, and Giovanni Battista Re. After him are Rudolf Schuster, Alfred Schnittke, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Carlo Rubbia, Heng Samrin, and Stanislav Shushkevich.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Švankmajer ranks 115 out of 1,200. Before him are Mojmir I of Moravia (795), Martina Navratilova (1956), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840), Stanislav Grof (1931), and Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292). After him are Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Alfred Kubin (1877), Anne of Bohemia (1366), Zdeněk Miler (1921), Daniel Swarovski (1862), and Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Jan Švankmajer ranks 3. Before him are Miloš Forman (1932), and Jiří Menzel (1938). After him are Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Zeman (1910), G. W. Pabst (1885), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Elmar Klos (1910), and Harun Farocki (1944).

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