1877 - 1965
Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema. He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915). After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he organized and presided over the first film school in the world, now known as VGIK. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Gardin has received more than 34,466 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vladimir Gardin is the 1,087th most popular film director (down from 883rd in 2019), the 1,782nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,414th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Vladimir Gardin ranks 1,087 out of 1,581. Before him are Kazimierz Kutz, Juliusz Machulski, Hideo Nakata, Céline Sciamma, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Antonio Mercero. After him are Jean Dréville, Louis Leterrier, Dennis Muren, Nelly Kaplan, Tim Miller, and David Koepp.
1929 - 2018
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 1,081
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 1,082
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 1,083
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 1,084
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 1,085
1936 - 2018
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 1,086
1877 - 1965
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 1,087
1906 - 1997
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 1,088
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 1,089
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 1,090
1931 - 2020
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 1,091
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.54
Rank: 1,092
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.54
Rank: 1,093
Among people born in 1877, Vladimir Gardin ranks 140. Before him are Roelof Klein, Abelardo Olivier, Johannes Schmidt, Bill Robinson, Dudley Pound, and Joseph Stella. After him are Ioannis Persakis, Georges Johin, Leopold Skulski, W. D. Ross, J. Searle Dawley, and Marsden Hartley. Among people deceased in 1965, Vladimir Gardin ranks 160. Before him are Eric Backman, Pietro Bianchi, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, and František Langer. After him are Edgar Barth, Urho Castrén, Geoffrey de Havilland, Charles Sheeler, Chris Berger, and Giorgio Zampori.
1877 - 1960
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 134
1877 - 1954
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 135
1877 - 1933
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 136
1877 - 1949
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 137
1877 - 1943
HPI: 45.82
Rank: 138
1877 - 1946
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 139
1877 - 1965
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 140
1877 - 1943
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 141
1877 - 1955
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 142
1877 - 1940
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 143
1877 - 1971
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 144
1877 - 1949
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 145
1877 - 1943
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 146
1896 - 1965
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 154
1883 - 1965
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 155
1890 - 1965
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 156
1888 - 1965
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 157
1879 - 1965
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 158
1888 - 1965
HPI: 45.70
Rank: 159
1877 - 1965
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 160
1917 - 1965
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 161
1886 - 1965
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 162
1882 - 1965
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 163
1883 - 1965
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 164
1911 - 1965
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 165
1887 - 1965
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 166
Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 1,782 out of 3,262. Before him are Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Josef Lhévinne (1874), Olha Bryzhina (1963), and Vasili Kuznetsov (1932). After him are Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Sergei Lemeshev (1902), Nikolay Latyshev (1913), Boris Morukov (1950), Peter Lesgaft (1837), and Afanasy Beloborodov (1903).
1947 - Present
HPI: 45.73
Rank: 1,776
1908 - 2004
HPI: 45.71
Rank: 1,777
1867 - 1896
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 1,778
1874 - 1944
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 1,779
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 1,780
1932 - 2001
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 1,781
1877 - 1965
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 1,782
1924 - 2012
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 1,783
1902 - 1977
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 1,784
1913 - 1999
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 1,785
1950 - 2015
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 1,786
1837 - 1909
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 1,787
1903 - Present
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 1,788
Among film directors born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 51. Before him are Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), Roman Abelevich Kachanov (1921), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Pavel Lungin (1949), Fedor Ozep (1895), and Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967). After him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Kirill Serebrennikov (1969), Pavel Chukhray (1946), and Andrei Kravchuk (1962).
1949 - 2021
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 45
1921 - 1993
HPI: 46.16
Rank: 46
1873 - 1934
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 47
1949 - Present
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 48
1895 - 1949
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 49
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 50
1877 - 1965
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 51
1970 - Present
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 52
1958 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 53
1897 - 1960
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 54
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 55
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 56
1962 - Present
HPI: 34.52
Rank: 57