FILM DIRECTOR

Sergey Urusevsky

1908 - 1974

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Sergey Pavlovich Urusevsky (Russian: Серге́й Павлович Урусевский) (23 December 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - 12 November 1974, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet cinematographer and film director, renowned for his work with Grigori Chukhrai, Mikhail Kalatozov and Yuli Raizman. His subjective camera style in I Am Cuba and The Cranes Are Flying is regarded as one of the best of all time, winning him several awards throughout his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Urusevsky has received more than 43,025 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sergey Urusevsky is the 1,242nd most popular film director (down from 1,000th in 2019), the 2,092nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,683rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular Russian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergey Urusevsky ranks 1,242 out of 2,041. Before him are Jiří Weiss, Sam Simon, Abram Room, Antonio Mercero, Colin Higgins, and Lorenza Mazzetti. After him are Cédric Klapisch, Shinichirō Watanabe, José Luis Cuerda, Mario Mattoli, Eric Kripke, and Paweł Edelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Sergey Urusevsky ranks 337. Before him are Félix Welkenhuysen, Numa Andoire, Sigmund Haringer, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Merna Kennedy, and Jim Brown. After him are Vladimír Syrovátka, Jean Claessens, John Doeg, Sylvio Hoffmann, Boris Piotrovsky, and Geirr Tveitt. Among people deceased in 1974, Sergey Urusevsky ranks 211. Before him are Zinaida Yermolyeva, Marieluise Fleißer, José Vidal, Cornelius Lanczos, Luis Marín, and Karen Silkwood. After him are Þórbergur Þórðarson, Gaston Mercier, Mamerto Urriolagoitía, Clive Brook, Vlasta Děkanová, and Paul Barth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Urusevsky ranks 2,092 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Lugansky (1972), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), Alexandr Romankov (1953), Alexander Ovechkin (1985), Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871), and Vladislav Krapivin (1938). After him are Alexey Favorsky (1860), Ivan Rybkin (1946), Gennadiy Seleznyov (1947), Jürgen Kurbjuhn (1940), Vladimir Martynov (1946), and Maxim Vengerov (1974).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Sergey Urusevsky ranks 60. Before him are Pavel Lungin (1949), Vladimir Naumov (1927), Roman Abelevich Kachanov (1921), Aleksandr Adabashyan (1945), Alexander Mitta (1933), and Gregory Ratoff (1897). After him are Igor Maslennikov (1931), Yuli Raizman (1903), Aleksandr Zarkhi (1908), Vasily Goncharov (1861), Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), and Kirill Serebrennikov (1969).

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