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FILM DIRECTOR

Lina Wertmüller

1928 - 2021

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Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (Italian: [ˈliːna vertˈmyller]), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away. Wertmüller was the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lina Wertmüller has received more than 670,610 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Lina Wertmüller is the 118th most popular film director (up from 191st in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,191st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Film Director.

Lina Wertmüller is most famous for being a filmmaker in Italy. She has made many films, most of which are comedies.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lina Wertmüller ranks 118 out of 1,581. Before her are David Fincher, Elia Kazan, Peter Jackson, Erich von Stroheim, Jerzy Grotowski, and Sam Peckinpah. After her are John Carpenter, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Mann, Michael Cimino, Roy Andersson, and Marcel Carné.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Lina Wertmüller ranks 41. Before her are Martin Cooper, Hans Küng, Geert Hofstede, Maya Angelou, Domenico Modugno, and Carlos Fuentes. After her are Tommaso Buscetta, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Hardy Krüger, Manfred Gerlach, Peyo, and Li Peng. Among people deceased in 2021, Lina Wertmüller ranks 43. Before her are Chick Corea, Robert Mundell, Jorge Sampaio, Carlos Reutemann, Martinus J. G. Veltman, and Paul J. Crutzen. After her are Jean-Pierre Adams, Dušan Ivković, Richard R. Ernst, Jean-Luc Nancy, Vicente Fernández, and Phil Spector.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lina Wertmüller ranks 870 out of 4,668. Before her are Guercino (1591), Berengar II of Italy (900), Angelo Sodano (1927), Emilio Segrè (1905), Concino Concini (1575), and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519). After her are Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642), Luciano Berio (1925), Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Tommaso Buscetta (1928), and Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Lina Wertmüller ranks 13. Before her are Roberto Rossellini (1906), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Frank Capra (1897), and Dario Argento (1940). After her are Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), Dino Risi (1916), Francesco Rosi (1922), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), and Liliana Cavani (1933).

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Filmography

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