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FILM DIRECTOR

Kurt Maetzig

1911 - 2012

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Kurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. He was one of the most respected filmmakers of the GDR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Maetzig has received more than 44,391 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Maetzig is the 1,056th most popular film director (down from 913th in 2019), the 4,217th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,672nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kurt Maetzig ranks 1,056 out of 1,581Before him are Tian Zhuangzhuang, Mimi Leder, Herbert Selpin, Fred Schepisi, Lloyd Kaufman, and Idrissa Ouédraogo. After him are Pavel Lungin, Irwin Winkler, Anne Fontaine, Duncan Jones, Fedor Ozep, and Fyodor Bondarchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Kurt Maetzig ranks 254Before him are Ekrem Akurgal, Alan Hovhaness, Bob Kiesel, Luís Mesquita de Oliveira, Rudolf Raftl, and Álvaro Cunqueiro. After him are Martim Mércio da Silveira, Zoltán Beke, Leonard Warren, Jack Finney, Jeanette Nolan, and Rıfat Ilgaz. Among people deceased in 2012, Kurt Maetzig ranks 285Before him are Norman Joseph Woodland, Albert George Wilson, Barney McKenna, Roland Moreno, Leila Denmark, and Lennart Samuelsson. After him are Emmanuel Scheffer, J. Bernlef, Nils Karlsson, Igor Kvasha, Luis Aponte Martínez, and Arkady Vorobyov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Maetzig ranks 4,217 out of 6,142Before him are Friedrich Engel (1861), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Herbert Selpin (1904), Peter Armbruster (1931), August Batsch (1761), and Annemarie Renger (1919). After him are Manfred Kokot (1948), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Stefan Raab (1966), Rudolf Harbig (1913), Juliane Köhler (1965), and Karin Baal (1940).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Kurt Maetzig ranks 55Before him are Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Frank Beyer (1932), Werner Klingler (1903), Helmut Dietl (1944), and Herbert Selpin (1904). After him are Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Walter Lassally (1926), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Kurt Hoffmann (1910), Dennis Gansel (1973), and Robert Schwentke (1968).

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