FILM DIRECTOR

Joris Ivens

1898 - 1989

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Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joris Ivens has received more than 232,413 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Joris Ivens is the 106th most popular film director (up from 151st in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 116th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Film Director.

Joris Ivens is a Dutch documentary filmmaker. He is most famous for his work with the USSR and China in the 1920s and 1930s.

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  • 12.30

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  • 1.91

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joris Ivens ranks 106 out of 2,041. Before him are Sam Peckinpah, Ang Lee, Marcel Carné, Jean-Pierre Melville, Walter Hill, and Mel Brooks. After him are John Carpenter, Robert Altman, David Fincher, John Huston, Terrence Malick, and Kenji Mizoguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Joris Ivens ranks 38. Before him are Curzio Malaparte, Jeanne Hébuterne, Trofim Lysenko, Karl Hermann Frank, Peng Dehuai, and Alexander Calder. After him are Aloysius Stepinac, Kenji Mizoguchi, Georges Dumézil, Therese Neumann, Latife Uşşaki, and Konrad Henlein. Among people deceased in 1989, Joris Ivens ranks 34. Before him are Sugar Ray Robinson, Emilio Segrè, George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and John Hicks. After him are Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Hermann Oberth, Michel Aflaq, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Danilo Kiš, and William Shockley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Joris Ivens ranks 100 out of 1,646. Before him are Menno Simons (1496), Isabelle de Charrière (1740), Geert Wilders (1963), Gerard ter Borch (1617), Gabriël Metsu (1629), and Carel Fabritius (1622). After him are Norbert of Xanten (1080), Leo Beenhakker (1942), Multatuli (1820), Herman Boerhaave (1668), Jacobus Arminius (1560), and Kees van Dongen (1877).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Netherlands

Among film directors born in Netherlands, Joris Ivens ranks 2. Before him are Paul Verhoeven (1938). After him are Theo van Gogh (1957), Jan de Bont (1943), Anton Corbijn (1955), Alex van Warmerdam (1952), Michaël Dudok de Wit (1953), Marleen Gorris (1948), Jan Kounen (1964), Tom Six (1973), Mike van Diem (1959), and Roel Reiné (1970).

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Filmography

Rain
Director
A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.
Dec 14o 19297.423 / 10
Valparaiso
Director
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.
Aug 31o 19646.9 / 10
A Tale of the Wind
Director
It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.
Mar 19o 19896.5 / 10