FILM DIRECTOR

Ulrich Seidl

1952 - Today

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Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film Dog Days won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001. His 2012 film Paradise: Love competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulrich Seidl has received more than 234,613 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ulrich Seidl is the 526th most popular film director (up from 763rd in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from Austria (up from 690th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Film Director.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ulrich Seidls by language

Over the past year Ulrich Seidl has had the most page views in the with 38,313 views, followed by English (33,444), and Italian (8,723). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (153.51%), Ido (118.15%), and Finnish (96.10%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ulrich Seidl ranks 526 out of 2,041. Before him are Claude Autant-Lara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Yates, Seijun Suzuki, Tom Tykwer, and Benoît Jacquot. After him are Mikhail Romm, Gorō Miyazaki, Ken Annakin, Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, and Ferdinand Zecca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ulrich Seidl ranks 174. Before him are Ahmed Ouyahia, Sergio Marchionne, Ian Hill, Semyon Bychkov, David Knopfler, and Alfre Woodard. After him are Péter Erdő, Krystyna Janda, Michael Cunningham, Vasco Rossi, Freddy Maertens, and Harold Faltermeyer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ulrich Seidl ranks 558 out of 1,424. Before him are Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Berta Karlik (1904), Josef Krips (1902), Ernst Fuchs (1930), Karl Koller (1929), and Erich von Hornbostel (1877). After him are Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1813), Georg Rafael Donner (1693), Franziska Donner (1900), Thomas Gold (1920), Conchita Wurst (1988), and Franz König (1905).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Austria

Among film directors born in Austria, Ulrich Seidl ranks 8. Before him are Erich von Stroheim (1885), Max Reinhardt (1873), Josef von Sternberg (1894), Gustav Ucicky (1899), Alexander Korda (1893), and Ernst Marischka (1893). After him are Francis Lawrence (1971), Richard Oswald (1880), Hans Hass (1919), Harald Reinl (1908), Joe May (1880), and Franz Antel (1913).

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Filmography

Paradise: Love
Director
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
Apr 27o 20126.8 / 10
Paradise: Faith
Director
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
Aug 29o 20126.556 / 10
Paradise: Hope
Director
Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.
Feb 22o 20136.352 / 10