FILM DIRECTOR

Régis Wargnier

1948 - Today

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Régis Wargnier (French: [ʁeʒis vaʁɲje]; born 18 April 1948) is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter and film score composer. His 1992 film Indochine won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards. His 1995 A French Woman was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Régis Wargnier has received more than 78,742 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Régis Wargnier is the 888th most popular film director (up from 917th in 2019), the 4,047th most popular biography from France (down from 3,913th in 2019) and the 111th most popular French Film Director.

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Over the past year Régis Wargnier has had the most page views in the with 15,413 views, followed by English (8,221), and Russian (5,360). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (89.80%), Catalan (52.27%), and Luxembourgish (31.79%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Régis Wargnier ranks 888 out of 2,041. Before him are Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Mitchell Leisen, David Cherkassky, Bob Gale, Mikael Håfström, and Jean Grémillon. After him are Pyotr Chardynin, Luca Guadagnino, Giuseppe Amato, Tadashi Imai, Jack Cardiff, and Wayne Wang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Régis Wargnier ranks 369. Before him are Janusz Gortat, Catherine Millet, Felix Kulov, M. C. Gainey, JoBeth Williams, and You Si-kun. After him are Wu Den-yih, Akira Emoto, Christopher Guest, Kate Pierson, Philippe Sarde, and Anthony Andrews.

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In France

Among people born in France, Régis Wargnier ranks 4,047 out of 6,770. Before him are Victor Lanoux (1936), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), Jean Grémillon (1902), René Maire (1878), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), and Henri Jobier (1879). After him are Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Françoise Rosay (1891), André Blondel (1863), Willy Ronis (1910), Marcel Arland (1899), and Bernard Panafieu (1931).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Régis Wargnier ranks 111. Before him are Henri Decoin (1890), Raoul Coutard (1924), Raymond Bernard (1891), Jean Becker (1933), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), and Jean Grémillon (1902). After him are Gérard Pirès (1942), Yves Boisset (1939), Philippe Rousselot (1945), Christophe Gans (1960), Justine Triet (1978), and Serge Bourguignon (1928).

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Filmography

Indochine
Director
Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society
Apr 15o 19927.083 / 10
Have Mercy on Us All
Director
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate...
Jan 24o 20075.893 / 10
Lumière and Company
Director
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Dec 20o 19956.363 / 10