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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 308,597 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Robert Wiene is the 254th most popular film director (up from 390th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Poland (up from 434th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Wiene ranks 254 out of 1,581. Before him are Věra Chytilová, Martin Campbell, Edward Dmytryk, Karel Zeman, Edwin S. Porter, and Hideaki Anno. After him are Joe D'Amato, Márta Mészáros, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jean Epstein, Leonid Gaidai, and Tex Avery.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Robert Wiene ranks 47. Before him are Hayim Nahman Bialik, Liang Qichao, Otto Wels, Jakob Wassermann, Radoje Domanović, and Fritz Thyssen. After him are Eliel Saarinen, Hugo Simberg, Arnold van Gennep, Leo Frobenius, Édouard Claparède, and Mehmet Akif Ersoy. Among people deceased in 1938, Robert Wiene ranks 51. Before him are Andrej Hlinka, Joseph Bédier, Marianne von Werefkin, Nikolay Krestinsky, Aleksandr Kuprin, and Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark. After him are Alfonsina Storni, Axel Paulsen, Leo Frobenius, César Vallejo, Ludwig Borchardt, and Yevhen Konovalets.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Robert Wiene ranks 284 out of 1,454. Before him are Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Moïse Kisling (1891), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Sepp Piontek (1940). After him are Jan Karski (1914), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), and Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Robert Wiene ranks 8. Before him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), and Agnieszka Holland (1948). After him are Jean Epstein (1897), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Paweł Pawlikowski (1957).

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Filmography

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