FILM DIRECTOR

Jean Rollin

1938 - 2010

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Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938 – 15 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre. Rollin's career, spanning over fifty years, featured early short films and his achievements with his first four vampire classics Le viol du vampire (1968), La vampire nue (1970), Le frisson des vampires (1970), and Requiem pour un vampire (1971). Rollin's subsequent notable works include La rose de fer (1973), Lèvres de sang (1975), Les raisins de la mort (1978), Fascination (1979), and La morte vivante (1982).His films are noted for their exquisite, if mostly static, cinematography, off-kilter plot progression, poetic dialogue, playful surrealism and recurrent use of well-constructed female lead characters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Rollin has received more than 272,107 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean Rollin is the 615th most popular film director (up from 746th in 2019), the 3,270th most popular biography from France (up from 3,505th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Film Director.

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Page views of Jean Rollins by language

Over the past year Jean Rollin has had the most page views in the with 37,941 views, followed by French (22,855), and German (8,051). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (178.00%), German (152.54%), and Spanish (76.56%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean Rollin ranks 615 out of 2,041. Before him are Yoji Yamada, Robert Enrico, Brad Bird, Keisuke Kinoshita, Hal Ashby, and Jim Sheridan. After him are Georges Franju, Andrew Birkin, Tran Anh Hung, Richard C. Sarafian, John Madden, and Paul Greengrass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jean Rollin ranks 229. Before him are Michael Löwy, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, José Torres, Andrei Amalrik, Theodor Kallifatides, and Roger Hunt. After him are Anatoly Marchenko, Pachín, Imre Földi, Tiziano Terzani, Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, and Moshe Safdie. Among people deceased in 2010, Jean Rollin ranks 160. Before him are Eugène Terre'Blanche, Peter Steele, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Werner Schroeter, Zoltán Varga, and Oswaldo López Arellano. After him are Panajot Pano, Yuri Ilyenko, David Warren, Kevin McCarthy, Bernard Giraudeau, and Bruno S..

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Rollin ranks 3,270 out of 6,770. Before him are Adrien Proust (1834), Guillaume Depardieu (1971), Michel Vautrot (1945), Robert Cambert (1628), Étienne Jodelle (1532), and Claude Pouillet (1790). After him are Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Victor Loret (1859), René Daumal (1908), Georges Franju (1912), Tristan Bernard (1866), and Léon Gaumont (1864).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean Rollin ranks 88. Before him are Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Georges Lautner (1926), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Albert Lamorisse (1922), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), and Robert Enrico (1931). After him are Georges Franju (1912), Michel Deville (1931), Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Bruno Nuytten (1945), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), and Claude Pinoteau (1925).

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Filmography

Fascination
Director
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Nov 1o 19796.2 / 10
The Demoniacs
Director
A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.
Dec 5o 19746.104 / 10
The Grapes of Death
Director
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
Jul 5o 19785.9 / 10