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FILM DIRECTOR

Otakar Vávra

1911 - 2011

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Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otakar Vávra has received more than 61,299 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Otakar Vávra is the 631st most popular film director (down from 587th in 2019), the 390th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 344th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Film Director.

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  • 61k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Otakar Vávra ranks 631 out of 1,581Before him are Brad Bird, Juraj Herz, Stan Winston, Yakov Protazanov, Paul Haggis, and Charles Vidor. After him are Kevin Smith, Majid Majidi, Henri Colpi, Percy Adlon, André Delvaux, and Allan Dwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Otakar Vávra ranks 149Before him are Nello Pagani, Pierre Harmel, Tilly Fleischer, Juan Carlos Zabala, René Barjavel, and Mirzo Tursunzoda. After him are Kaj Franck, Leopold Kielholz, Heinz von Foerster, Jiří Sobotka, Hume Cronyn, and Aliya bint Ali. Among people deceased in 2011, Otakar Vávra ranks 171Before him are Koichi Tohei, Arnošt Lustig, Kazimierz Świątek, Hella Haasse, Josip Katalinski, and John Neville. After him are Claude Choules, Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Alfonso Cano, Michael S. Hart, George Shearing, and Ladislav Novák.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Otakar Vávra ranks 390 out of 973Before him are Antonín Vranický (1761), Jiří Čadek (1935), Oldřich Černík (1921), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Petr Korda (1968), and Vlastimil Brodský (1920). After him are Ivan Hašek (1963), Hana Brady (1931), Ralph Benatzky (1884), Prince Karl of Auersperg (1814), Josef Kadraba (1933), and Mikoláš Aleš (1852).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Otakar Vávra ranks 11Before him are Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Zeman (1910), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), and František Čáp (1913). After him are Ivan Passer (1933), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Jan Němec (1936), Karel Lamač (1897), Harun Farocki (1944), and František Vláčil (1924).

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