FILM DIRECTOR

Julien Duvivier

1896 - 1967

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Julien Duvivier (French: [dyvivje]; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julien Duvivier has received more than 145,876 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Julien Duvivier is the 255th most popular film director (down from 237th in 2019), the 1,587th most popular biography from France (down from 1,483rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Julien Duvivier ranks 255 out of 2,041. Before him are Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tsui Hark, Edward Dmytryk, Patrice Chéreau, Frank Darabont, and Assi Dayan. After him are Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Fleischer, Menahem Golan, Henri Verneuil, Frank Lloyd, and Robert Aldrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Julien Duvivier ranks 66. Before him are Ida Noddack, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Norodom Suramarit, Jimmy Doolittle, Otto Hofmann, and Aleksei Antonov. After him are Ville Ritola, Karl August Wittfogel, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Michael Balint, Tadj ol-Molouk, and Agustín Muñoz Grandes. Among people deceased in 1967, Julien Duvivier ranks 62. Before him are Ed White, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Roger B. Chaffee, Léon M'ba, Primo Carnera, and G. W. Pabst. After him are Günther Blumentritt, Basil Rathbone, Paul Muni, Marcel Aymé, Julius Schaub, and Géza Lakatos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Julien Duvivier ranks 1,587 out of 6,770. Before him are Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1165), Frank Darabont (1959), Arletty (1898), Émile Gaboriau (1832), William of Champeaux (1070), and Anne Gonzaga (1616). After him are Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Séraphine Louis (1864), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Émile Chartier (1868), Pierre Varignon (1654), and Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Julien Duvivier ranks 33. Before him are Claude Lanzmann (1925), Chris Marker (1921), Jacques Becker (1906), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Patrice Chéreau (1944), and Frank Darabont (1959). After him are Germaine Dulac (1882), Just Jaeckin (1940), Philippe de Broca (1933), Francis Veber (1937), William Kennedy Dickson (1860), and Jean Rouch (1917).

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Filmography

The Little World of Don Camillo
Director
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Mar 28o 19527.644 / 10
The Return of Don Camillo
Director
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Jun 5o 19537.265 / 10
Pépé le Moko
Director
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
Jan 28o 19377.2 / 10