FILM DIRECTOR

Ivan Pyryev

1901 - 1968

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Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and pedagogue remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Pyryev is the 718th most popular film director (up from 795th in 2019), the 1,279th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,422nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ivan Pyryev ranks 718 out of 2,041. Before him are Alberto Cavalcanti, Yoji Yamada, Terence Fisher, Barry Sonnenfeld, David O. Russell, and Rajko Grlić. After him are Pasquale Festa Campanile, Russell Mulcahy, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Alexander Payne, Franco Rossi, and Mike Flanagan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ivan Pyryev ranks 179. Before him are Ugo Frigerio, Henri Sauguet, Alberto Hurtado, Hans Erich Nossack, Elias Katz, and Aurora Mardiganian. After him are Alexandre Alexeieff, Zeppo Marx, Mercedes Comaposada, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Clyde Geronimi, and Francisco Guilledo. Among people deceased in 1968, Ivan Pyryev ranks 124. Before him are Harry Stenqvist, R. Norris Williams, Ugo Frigerio, Fay Bainter, Vahram Papazian, and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. After him are Khuang Aphaiwong, J. L. B. Smith, Rose Wilder Lane, Segismundo Casado, Ibrahim Moustafa, and Mercedes de Acosta.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pyryev ranks 1,279 out of 3,761. Before him are Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Olga Bergholz (1910), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), Boris Delaunay (1890), Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937), and Yuli Daniel (1925). After him are Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Georgy Grechko (1931), Igor Rodionov (1936), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (1962), and Viktor Grishin (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Ivan Pyryev ranks 25. Before him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Fedor Ozep (1895), and Stanislav Govorukhin (1936). After him are Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Alexander Rou (1906), and Alexandre Volkoff (1885).

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