FILM DIRECTOR

Les Kurbas

1887 - 1937

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Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas (Ukrainian: Олександр-Зенон Степанович Курбас; 24 February 1887 – 30 November 1937), was a Ukrainian movie and theater director. He is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed, together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors, the Soviet theater avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Les Kurbas has received more than 51,283 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Les Kurbas is the 632nd most popular film director, the 481st most popular biography from Ukraine and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Les Kurbas ranks 632 out of 2,041. Before him are Yuri Ilyenko, Alberto Cavalcanti, Natacha Rambova, Robert Mulligan, Roger Spottiswoode, and Giovanni Pastrone. After him are James Mangold, Larry Clark, Michel Deville, Segundo de Chomón, Im Kwon-taek, and Gianfranco Parolini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Les Kurbas ranks 146. Before him are Heino Eller, Omer Nishani, Ernst Wiechert, Walther Wever, Ricardo Wolf, and Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. After him are Prince Gustav of Denmark, Hristo Lukov, Jānis Rudzutaks, Jorge Chávez, Pavel Postyshev, and Chico Marx. Among people deceased in 1937, Les Kurbas ranks 96. Before him are Josep Comas i Solà, Nathan Birnbaum, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Mikhail Diterikhs, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, and Muslim Magomayev. After him are Peter Arshinov, Bekir Çoban-zade, Otto Hölder, Alfred Abel, Jaan Anvelt, and Albert Heim.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Les Kurbas ranks 481 out of 1,365. Before him are Pavel Urysohn (1898), Nina Bocharova (1924), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Alexander Potebnja (1835), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), and Alexander Trepov (1862). After him are Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Leonid Utyosov (1895).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Les Kurbas ranks 13. Before him are Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936). After him are Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Roman Karmen (1906), Aleksander Ford (1908), Janusz Majewski (1931), and David Cherkassky (1931).

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