FILM DIRECTOR

Walter Ruttmann

1887 - 1941

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Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Ruttmann has received more than 199,595 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Ruttmann is the 411th most popular film director (up from 484th in 2019), the 2,212th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,497th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Walter Ruttmann ranks 411 out of 2,041. Before him are Kaneto Shindo, Christian-Jaque, John Guillermin, André Téchiné, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and Kon Ichikawa. After him are Giuliano Montaldo, Michel Gondry, Sergiu Nicolaescu, M. Night Shyamalan, J. J. Abrams, and Aleksandar Petrović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Walter Ruttmann ranks 97. Before him are Jack Phillips, Hanns Kerrl, Hitoshi Ashida, Annette Kellermann, Roscoe Arbuckle, and François Faber. After him are Samuil Marshak, Johann Radon, Miklós Kállay, Kurt Atterberg, James Finlayson, and Antanas Merkys. Among people deceased in 1941, Walter Ruttmann ranks 75. Before him are Christian Sinding, Ivan Panfilov, Alfred Hettner, Guillermo Kahlo, Hanns Kerrl, and Anandyn Amar. After him are Joachim Schepke, Maximilien Luce, John Stanley Plaskett, Alexandros Koryzis, Arkady Gaidar, and Peder Mørk Mønsted.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 2,212 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), Horst Seehofer (1949), Fredrik Barth (1928), Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Claude Dornier (1884), and Heinz Hoffmann (1910). After him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), Friedrich Wieck (1785), Jérôme Boateng (1988), Sigmund Rascher (1909), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), and Fritz Pfeffer (1889).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 21. Before him are Robert Siodmak (1900), Mike Nichols (1931), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Veit Harlan (1899), Lotte Reiniger (1899), and Wolfgang Reitherman (1909). After him are Oskar Fischinger (1900), Walter Frentz (1907), Alexander Kluge (1932), Henry Koster (1905), Tom Tykwer (1965), and Uli Edel (1947).

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