FILM DIRECTOR

Anatole Litvak

1902 - 1974

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Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak OBE (10 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), commonly known as Anatole Litvak, was a Russian-American filmmaker. Born to Jewish parents in Kiev, he began his theatrical training at age 13 in St. Petersburg, where he lived through the end of the Russian Revolution. He began his film directing career in Germany and France, before moving to the United States in the late 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anatole Litvak is the 254th most popular film director (up from 323rd in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Anatole Litvak ranks 254 out of 2,041. Before him are Chris Marker, Paolo Sorrentino, Nagisa Oshima, Michael Moore, Lucio Fulci, and Henry Hathaway. After him are Shohei Imamura, Jacques Becker, Peter Bogdanovich, John Sturges, Mike Nichols, and Sven Nykvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Anatole Litvak ranks 67. Before him are Oskar Morgenstern, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Wilhelm Stuckart, Sylvanus Olympio, Kirill Moskalenko, and Léon M'ba. After him are Marcel Aymé, Richard Rodgers, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Christian de Castries, Pascual Jordan, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Among people deceased in 1974, Anatole Litvak ranks 46. Before him are Marcel Pagnol, Hilda Gadea, Farid al-Atrash, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Frank Martin, and Creighton Abrams. After him are André Jolivet, Vasily Shukshin, Franz Jonas, Salvador Puig Antich, Helmuth Koinigg, and Everaldo.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anatole Litvak ranks 196 out of 1,365. Before him are Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Igor Belanov (1960), and Batbayan (700). After him are Tamara Press (1937), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Valeriy Borzov (1949), and Leonid Kogan (1924).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Anatole Litvak ranks 5. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), and Otto Preminger (1905). After him are Richard Boleslawski (1889), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Les Kurbas (1887).

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