Film Director

Jan Švankmajer

filmmaker

1934 - today

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His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2024). Jan Švankmajer is the 168th most popular film director (down from 165th in 2024), the 127th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 116th 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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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Jan Švankmajer ranks 168 out of 2,041. Before him are Louis Malle, Jean Vigo, Claude Lanzmann, Jacques Rivette, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Kim Ki-duk. After him are Ettore Scola, Tom Holland, Max Ophüls, István Szabó, Roland Emmerich, and Sergio Corbucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jan Švankmajer ranks 67. Before him are Fujiko Fujio, Bettino Craxi, Howard Martin Temin, Brian Epstein, Alfred Schnittke, and Kurt Hamrin. After him are Bill Russell, Stanislav Shushkevich, Tassos Papadopoulos, Udo Jürgens, Ronald Wayne, and Raniero Cantalamessa.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Švankmajer ranks 127 out of NaN. Before him are Prokop the Great (1380), Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915), Jan Neruda (1834), Elizabeth of Görlitz (1390), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), and Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821). After him are Daniel Swarovski (1862), Emilie Schindler (1907), Věra Čáslavská (1942), Mojmir I of Moravia (795), Anton Reicha (1770), and Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888).

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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 G. W. Pabst (1885), Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Zeman (1910), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), Otakar Vávra (1911), Karl Freund (1890), and František Čáp (1913).

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