1929 - 2014
Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals, including Vlčí bouda (1987), which screened at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989), which screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992), which screened at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Věra Chytilová has received more than 221,642 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Věra Chytilová is the 248th most popular film director (down from 228th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 141st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Film Director.
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Among film directors, Věra Chytilová ranks 248 out of 1,581. Before her are Jane Campion, Mikhail Kalatozov, Stanley Donen, Mauritz Stiller, David Hamilton, and Gojko Mitić. After her are Martin Campbell, Edward Dmytryk, Karel Zeman, Edwin S. Porter, Hideaki Anno, and Robert Wiene.
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 242
1903 - 1973
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 243
1924 - 2019
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 244
1883 - 1928
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 245
1933 - 2016
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 246
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 247
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 248
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 249
1908 - 1999
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 250
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 251
1870 - 1941
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 252
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 253
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 254
Among people born in 1929, Věra Chytilová ranks 103. Before her are Georgi Markov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bob Denard, John Polanyi, June Carter Cash, and Kjell Askildsen. After her are Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eva Schloss, Chespirito, Isabel Sarli, David Kelly, and Lorenzo Buffon. Among people deceased in 2014, Věra Chytilová ranks 62. Before her are Gottfried John, Miklós Jancsó, Ralph H. Baer, B. K. S. Iyengar, Stuart Hall, and Veljko Kadijević. After her are Hilderaldo Bellini, Chespirito, Luise Rainer, Siegfried Lenz, Fred Phelps, and Gabriel Axel.
1929 - 1978
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 97
1929 - 2004
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 98
1929 - 2007
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 99
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 100
1929 - 2003
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 101
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 102
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 103
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 104
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 105
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 106
1929 - 2019
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 107
1929 - 2012
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 108
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 109
1942 - 2014
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 56
1921 - 2014
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 57
1922 - 2014
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 58
1918 - 2014
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 59
1932 - 2014
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 60
1925 - 2014
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 61
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 62
1930 - 2014
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 63
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 64
1910 - 2014
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 65
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 66
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 67
1918 - 2014
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 68
Among people born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 160 out of 973. Before her are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Blanche of Valois (1316), František Plánička (1904), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860). After her are Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Bedřich Hrozný (1879), Karel Zeman (1910), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Josef Koudelka (1938), and František Palacký (1798).
1890 - 1967
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 154
1316 - 1348
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 155
1904 - 1996
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 156
1898 - 1944
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 157
1863 - 1954
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 158
1860 - 1933
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 159
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 160
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 161
1879 - 1952
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 162
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 163
888 - 921
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 164
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 165
1798 - 1876
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 166
Among film directors born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 5. Before her are Miloš Forman (1932), Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), and G. W. Pabst (1885). After her are Karel Zeman (1910), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Ivan Passer (1933).
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 1
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 3
1885 - 1967
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 4
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 5
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 6
1912 - 1969
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 7
1926 - 2002
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 8
1930 - 2019
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 9
1913 - 1972
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 10
1911 - 2011
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 11
1933 - 2020
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 12