FILM DIRECTOR

Jiří Menzel

1938 - 2020

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Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] ) (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jiří Menzel has received more than 244,082 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 42 in 2019). Jiří Menzel is the 123rd most popular film director (up from 125th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Film Director.

Jiri Menzel is most famous for his 1965 film Closely Watched Trains, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jiří Menzel ranks 123 out of 2,041. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski, David Lean, Sergei Bondarchuk, John Woo, Howard Hawks, and Victor Fleming. After him are Wes Craven, Claude Lelouch, René Clément, Michael Curtiz, Peter Weir, and William Hanna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jiří Menzel ranks 47. Before him are Kenny Rogers, Robert Nozick, Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, César Luis Menotti, Ahmed Qurei, and Jean Giraud. After him are Alpha Condé, Raymond Carver, Ayaz Mutallibov, Kurt Wüthrich, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Frederick Forsyth. Among people deceased in 2020, Jiří Menzel ranks 34. Before him are Kenny Rogers, Neil Peart, Betty Williams, Christopher Tolkien, Arthur Ashkin, and Dmitry Yazov. After him are Oliver E. Williamson, Michael Lonsdale, John le Carré, Lucia Bosè, Kobe Bryant, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jiří Menzel ranks 88 out of 1,200. Before him are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155), Maria Christina of Austria (1858), Antonín Novotný (1904), Victor Lustig (1890), and Julius Fučík (1903). After him are Petr Pavel (1961), Archduchess Anna of Austria (1528), Kurt Knispel (1921), Johann Stamitz (1717), Prokop the Great (1380), and Alois Senefelder (1771).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Jiří Menzel ranks 2. Before him are Miloš Forman (1932). After him are Jan Švankmajer (1934), 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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