FILM DIRECTOR

Robert Wiene

1873 - 1938

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Robert Wiene (German: [ˈviːnə]; 27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer, active during the silent era. He is widely-known for directing the landmark 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and a succession of other expressionist films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Wiene has received more than 331,461 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Robert Wiene is the 221st most popular film director (up from 254th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Poland (up from 284th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Film Director.

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  • 60.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Wiene ranks 221 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Wise, Liliana Cavani, Carol Reed, Gojko Mitić, Barry Levinson, and Guy Ritchie. After him are Nanni Moretti, Tony Richardson, Chris Marker, Mario Monicelli, Chantal Akerman, and Nicholas Ray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Robert Wiene ranks 38. Before him are Charles Péguy, Ray Ewry, Lee de Forest, Alexander Bogdanov, Radoje Domanović, and Tullio Levi-Civita. After him are Hayim Nahman Bialik, Constantin Carathéodory, Jakob Wassermann, Eliel Saarinen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Hugo Simberg. Among people deceased in 1938, Robert Wiene ranks 49. Before him are William Stern, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Marianne von Werefkin, Yakov Yurovsky, Yevhen Konovalets, and Nikolay Krestinsky. After him are Alfonsina Storni, Mary Mallon, Joseph Bédier, Aleksandr Kuprin, César Vallejo, and Francis Jammes.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Robert Wiene ranks 268 out of 1,694. Before him are Wanda Landowska (1879), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Gunderic (379), Henryk Szeryng (1918), and Hugo Münsterberg (1863). After him are Jan Kochanowski (1530), Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Victor Klemperer (1881), Casimir II the Just (1138), and Edward Gierek (1913).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Robert Wiene ranks 9. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), and Agnieszka Holland (1948). After him are Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), and Paweł Pawlikowski (1957).

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