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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 100,664 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Vilgot Sjöman is the 697th most popular film director (down from 637th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 439th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 697 out of 1,581Before him are Jaromil Jireš, Nicolas Winding Refn, Fred Niblo, John Stagliano, James Mangold, and David O. Russell. After him are Rudolph Maté, Bruno Mattei, Claude Miller, Jeannot Szwarc, Bruce Beresford, and Timur Bekmambetov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 220Before him are Ed Koch, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Klaus Huber, Jean-Michel Charlier, Mike Bongiorno, and J. J. Johnson. After him are Isadore Singer, Ján Chryzostom Korec, Sabu Dastagir, Jaime Lusinchi, Erik Balling, and Paruyr Sevak. Among people deceased in 2006, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 183Before him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mariam Aslamazian, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Asima Chatterjee, Shoshana Damari, and Esther Lederberg. After him are Elizabeth Bolden, Andreas Katsulas, Kent Andersson, Theodore Levitt, Akira Ifukube, and Octavia E. Butler.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 464 out of 1,612Before him are Mai Zetterling (1925), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Kristina Wayborn (1950), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (1921), Ulla Jacobsson (1929), and Liza Marklund (1962). After him are Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585), Sigrid Hjertén (1885), Ernst Fast (1881), Anna Q. Nilsson (1888), Björn Nordqvist (1942), and Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Vilgot Sjöman ranks 10Before him are Victor Sjöström (1879), Sven Nykvist (1922), Bo Widerberg (1930), Jan Troell (1931), Alf Sjöberg (1903), and Olle Hellbom (1925). After him are Hasse Ekman (1915), Mikael Håfström (1960), Erika Lust (1977), Gunnar Fischer (1910), Kjell Grede (1936), and Jonas Åkerlund (1965).

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