FILM DIRECTOR

Wolfgang Becker

1954 - Today

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Wolfgang Becker (born 22 June 1954) is a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work Good Bye Lenin! (2003). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Becker has received more than 80,111 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Becker is the 865th most popular film director (down from 685th in 2019), the 4,123rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,343rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Wolfgang Beckers by language

Over the past year Wolfgang Becker has had the most page views in the with 18,441 views, followed by French (3,731), and English (3,498). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (84.79%), Malagasy (80.90%), and Esperanto (64.09%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wolfgang Becker ranks 865 out of 2,041. Before him are J. A. Bayona, Ronny Yu, Jean Becker, Yash Chopra, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Eugeniusz Bodo. After him are Kim Ki-young, Eli Roth, Jeannot Szwarc, Charles Crichton, Michael Winner, and Jack Clayton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Wolfgang Becker ranks 245. Before him are Eric Johnson, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, Mark Tornillo, François Van der Elst, Ingrid Daubechies, and Catherine Bach. After him are Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Louise Erdrich, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Mauro Baldi, Angelo De Donatis, and Roy Jacobsen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Becker ranks 4,123 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Wilhelm Heye (1869), and Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen (1696). After him are Erich Ollenhauer (1901), Rudolf Wolters (1903), Helmuth Rilling (1933), Heinz Stuy (1945), Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767), and George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1591).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Wolfgang Becker ranks 43. Before him are Marc Forster (1969), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Uwe Boll (1965), and Edgar Reitz (1932). After him are Percy Adlon (1935), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ludwig Berger (1892), Helmut Käutner (1908), Kurt Maetzig (1911), and Helmut Dietl (1944).

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Filmography

Life Is All You Get
Director
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Mar 20o 19976.766 / 10
Good Bye, Lenin!
Director
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Feb 13o 20037.551 / 10
Me and Kaminski
Director
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Sep 17o 20156.216 / 10