FILM DIRECTOR

Vilgot Sjöman

1924 - 2006

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David Harald Vilgot Sjöman (2 December 1924 – 9 April 2006) was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilgot Sjöman has received more than 110,267 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Vilgot Sjöman is the 677th most popular film director (up from 695th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swedish Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 677 out of 2,041. Before him are Alexander Payne, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Andrew Niccol, James Gunn, W. S. Van Dyke, and Burt Kennedy. After him are Majid Majidi, Ruy Guerra, Billy Hayes, Terence Davies, Paul Mazursky, and Aaron Russo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 215. Before him are Jean Laplanche, Evald Ilyenkov, Juan Carlos González, Basil Bernstein, Anne Vernon, and J. J. Johnson. After him are Viktor Astafyev, Leslie Phillips, Marga López, Olivier Gendebien, Klaus Huber, and Mike Bongiorno. Among people deceased in 2006, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 177. Before him are Peter Benchley, Mickey Spillane, Tadao Onishi, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Norman, and Galina Ustvolskaya. After him are Hugh Thompson Jr., Mohammad Yunus Khalis, Octavia E. Butler, Daniel Schmid, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, and Jurij Brězan.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 480 out of 1,879. Before him are Rickard Sandler (1884), Leif G. W. Persson (1945), Anders Dahl (1751), Åse Kleveland (1949), Christer Pettersson (1947), and Gunilla Bergström (1942). After him are Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), Ulla Jacobsson (1929), Arvid Posse (1820), Sven Wollter (1934), Karl Staaf (1881), and Magnus, Duke of Östergötland (1542).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 9. Before him are Victor Sjöström (1879), Roy Andersson (1943), Sven Nykvist (1922), Bo Widerberg (1930), Alf Sjöberg (1903), and Jan Troell (1931). After him are Ruben Östlund (1974), Olle Hellbom (1925), Hasse Ekman (1915), Mikael Håfström (1960), Erika Lust (1977), and Gunnar Fischer (1910).

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