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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 189,877 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Ruttmann is the 485th most popular film director (down from 389th in 2019), the 2,500th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,054th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Walter Ruttmann ranks 485 out of 1,581. Before him are Nuri Bilge Ceylan, John Waters, Patrice Leconte, Aleksandar Petrović, Yves Allégret, and Asghar Farhadi. After him are Václav Vorlíček, Lindsay Anderson, Elio Petri, Seijun Suzuki, Hal Ashby, and Néstor Almendros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Walter Ruttmann ranks 103. Before him are Jim Thorpe, James Finlayson, Kurt Atterberg, Frigyes Karinthy, Hanns Kerrl, and Arthur Percival. After him are Octave Lapize, M. N. Roy, Alvin Hansen, Jorge Chávez, Govind Ballabh Pant, and Şükrü Saracoğlu. Among people deceased in 1941, Walter Ruttmann ranks 86. Before him are Maurice Bavaud, Hanns Kerrl, Mustafa Shokay, Alexandros Koryzis, Wil van Gogh, and Simon Dubnow. After him are Grigory Shtern, May Ziade, Parvin E'tesami, Olga Kameneva, Edgar Aabye, and Louis Marcoussis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 2,500 out of 6,142. Before him are Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Rudi Altig (1937), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Götz George (1938), and Adalbert of Hamburg (1000). After him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271), Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), and Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 24. Before him are Lotte Reiniger (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Peter Stein (1937), and Alexander Kluge (1932). After him are Walter Frentz (1907), Tom Tykwer (1965), Henry Koster (1905), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), and Bernd Eichinger (1949).

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Filmography

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