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FILM DIRECTOR

Yuri Norstein

1941 - Today

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Yuri Borisovich Norstein (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн; born 15 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Since 1981, he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Norstein has received more than 195,171 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Yuri Norstein is the 391st most popular film director (up from 398th in 2019), the 709th most popular biography from Russia (down from 682nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 200k

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  • 55.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yuri Norstein ranks 391 out of 1,581Before him are Lotte Reiniger, Jean Girault, Marcel Camus, John McTiernan, Sam Wood, and Jerzy Hoffman. After him are Mario Camus, Jacques Feyder, Shin Sang-ok, Joe Dante, Karel Reisz, and Claude Zidi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Yuri Norstein ranks 157Before him are Peter Coyote, Paavo Lipponen, Chubby Checker, Eleni Karaindrou, David Hemmings, and Aldrich Ames. After him are Captain Beefheart, Robert D. Putnam, Ahmed Shafik, Jaan Kaplinski, Chucho Valdés, and Luis Alberto Lacalle.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Norstein ranks 709 out of 3,262Before him are Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847), Alexander Lodygin (1847), Lev Rudnev (1885), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Kirill Kondrashin (1914), and Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586). After him are Otto Braun (1872), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Pavel Tretyakov (1832), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), and Vasili Mitrokhin (1922).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Yuri Norstein ranks 12Before him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Elem Klimov (1933), and Ladislas Starevich (1882). After him are Alexander Sokurov (1951), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Mikhail Romm (1901), Sergei Solovyov (1944), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), and Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938).

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