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 60,703 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Otakar Vávra is the 720th most popular film director (down from 630th in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 390th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Czech Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 61k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Otakar Vávras by language

Over the past year Otakar Vávra has had the most page views in the with 28,911 views, followed by English (6,408), and Slovak (3,317). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (78.45%), Malagasy (61.58%), and Esperanto (49.03%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Otakar Vávra ranks 720 out of 2,041. Before him are J. Stuart Blackton, Yasuzo Masumura, Paul Grimault, Steno, Tatyana Lioznova, and Charles Vidor. After him are Corey Yuen, Maurice Tourneur, Jack Arnold, Emile Ardolino, Clyde Geronimi, and Alexei Uchitel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Otakar Vávra ranks 170. Before him are René Barjavel, Guy Burgess, Yang Jiang, Tarō Okamoto, Xiao Hong, and Broderick Crawford. After him are Heinz von Foerster, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Klára Dán von Neumann, Nagarjun, Viktor Nekrasov, and Hédi Amara Nouira. Among people deceased in 2011, Otakar Vávra ranks 196. Before him are Tatyana Lioznova, Alfonso Cano, Adrián Escudero, Imre Makovecz, Kurt Nielsen, and Jacques Fatton. After him are Max van der Stoel, Attilio Pavesi, George Shearing, Virgilio Noè, José Alencar, and Juan Arza.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Otakar Vávra ranks 452 out of 1,200. Before him are Christoph Demantius (1567), Milan Máčala (1943), Ernst Tugendhat (1930), Jaromír Jágr (1972), Václav Hanka (1791), and Dagmar Lassander (1943). After him are Ralph Benatzky (1884), Koloman Gögh (1948), Ernst Weiss (1882), František Veselý (1943), Tomáš Skuhravý (1965), and David Černý (1967).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Otakar Vávra ranks 13. Before him are Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Elmar Klos (1910), and Harun Farocki (1944). After him are Karel Lamač (1897), Karl Freund (1890), František Vláčil (1924), Ivan Passer (1933), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), and Gustav Machatý (1901).

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Filmography

Krakatit
Director
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
Apr 9o 19486.556 / 10
Romance for Bugle
Director
A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.
Mar 3o 19675.3 / 10
Witchhammer
Director
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Jan 23o 19707.7 / 10