FILM DIRECTOR

Wanda Jakubowska

1907 - 1998

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Wanda Jakubowska (10 November 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director. Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust. Her 1948 film The Last Stage was an early and influential depiction of concentration camps. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wanda Jakubowska has received more than 40,811 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wanda Jakubowska is the 895th most popular film director (up from 1,046th in 2019), the 888th most popular biography from Poland (up from 932nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 895 out of 2,041. Before her are Pyotr Chardynin, Luca Guadagnino, Giuseppe Amato, Tadashi Imai, Jack Cardiff, and Wayne Wang. After her are Percy Adlon, Catherine Hardwicke, Alexandre Volkoff, Jack Bender, Goran Paskaljević, and Gérard Pirès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 227. Before her are Mark Krein, Émile Veinante, Ragnar Gustavsson, Lydia Chukovskaya, Seth Neddermeyer, and Mascha Kaléko. After her are Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Đuro Kurepa, Philip Arthur Fisher, James Robertson Justice, Ernst Albrecht, and Alexander Knox. Among people deceased in 1998, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 189. Before her are Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, António Ribeiro, Enoch Powell, Kim Ki-young, Tammy Wynette, and Nicolas Bouvier. After her are Pruden, Jean Shiley, Marion Donovan, Héctor Vilches, William Gaddis, and Johannes Kotkas.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 888 out of 1,694. Before her are Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Jacob Talmon (1916), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Johannes Winkler (1897), Szymon Czechowicz (1689), and Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884). After her are Johann Christian Günther (1695), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), Werner Olk (1938), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), and Klausjürgen Wussow (1929).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 21. Before her are Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Andrzej Munk (1921), Wojciech Has (1925), Rudolph Maté (1898), Boris Kaufman (1906), and Max Fleischer (1883). After her are Dariusz Wolski (1956), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Kazimierz Kutz (1929), Juliusz Machulski (1955), and Paweł Edelman (1958).

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