FILM DIRECTOR

Karel Kachyňa

1924 - 2004

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Karel Kachyňa (1 May 1924 – 12 March 2004) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Kachyňa has received more than 53,428 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karel Kachyňa is the 915th most popular film director (up from 922nd in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 527th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Czech Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 53k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Karel Kachyňa ranks 915 out of 2,041. Before him are Michel Brault, Walter Lang, Masato Harada, Steven Zaillian, Kim Jee-woon, and Pasquale Festa Campanile. After him are Jørgen Leth, Chad Stahelski, Tay Garnett, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Philippe Rousselot, and Christophe Gans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Karel Kachyňa ranks 288. Before him are María Dolores Pradera, Marianne Werner, Inge Sørensen, Inji Aflatoun, Aloísio Lorscheider, and John Love. After him are Ricardo Infante, William Rehnquist, Abdulah Gegić, Yuri Bondarev, Leonard Rosenman, and Michael Sela. Among people deceased in 2004, Karel Kachyňa ranks 194. Before him are Alicia Markova, Balamani Amma, Philip Arthur Fisher, Claude Nougaro, Oscar Heisserer, and Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria. After him are Abdul Rahman Munif, Sara Lidman, Ehrenfried Patzel, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Alan Bullock, and Leonel Brizola.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Kachyňa ranks 542 out of 1,200. Before him are Tadeáš Hájek (1525), Tomáš Pospíchal (1936), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Ladislav Klíma (1878), Ladislav Fuks (1923), and Jan Janský (1873). After him are Jan Šrámek (1870), Peter Ducke (1941), Roderich Menzel (1907), Jaroslav Burgr (1906), Ehrenfried Patzel (1914), and Ignaz Brüll (1846).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Karel Kachyňa ranks 22. Before him are František Vláčil (1924), Ivan Passer (1933), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), Gustav Machatý (1901), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), and Jan Němec (1936). After him are Oldřich Lipský (1924), Martin Frič (1902), Břetislav Pojar (1923), Jiří Weiss (1913), Jan Svěrák (1965), and Jan Hřebejk (1967).

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