FILM DIRECTOR

Jean Vigo

1905 - 1934

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Jean Vigo (French: [ʒɑ̃ viɡo]; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Vigo is the 163rd most popular film director (up from 185th in 2019), the 1,132nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,224th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Film Director.

Jean Vigo was a French film director and screenwriter. He is most famous for his films "Zéro de Conduite" and "L'Atalante."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean Vigo ranks 163 out of 2,041Before him are Don Siegel, Abel Gance, Josef von Sternberg, Peter Weir, Lewis Milestone, and Louis Malle. After him are Claude Lanzmann, Jacques Rivette, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kim Ki-duk, Jan Švankmajer, and Ettore Scola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Jean Vigo ranks 39Before him are Raymond Cattell, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Max Schmeling, Michael Powell, Marian Rejewski, and Helen Wills. After him are Carl Gustav Hempel, Shojiro Sugimura, Dalton Trumbo, Severo Ochoa, Franz Ziereis, and Enrique Ballestrero. Among people deceased in 1934, Jean Vigo ranks 29Before him are Louis Barthou, Marinus van der Lubbe, Alice Liddell, Edmond James de Rothschild, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Siegbert Tarrasch. After him are William Morris Davis, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Hans Hahn, Carl von Linde, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, and Pietro Gasparri.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Vigo ranks 1,132 out of 6,770Before him are Jean Giraudoux (1882), Charibert II (618), Gaston Maspero (1846), Sonia Rykiel (1930), François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577), and Louis Malle (1932). After him are Christophe Plantin (1520), Jean-Pierre Papin (1963), Victorien Sardou (1831), Claude Lanzmann (1925), Heinrich Kramer (1430), and Hugh of Italy (880).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean Vigo ranks 24Before him are Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Marcel Carné (1906), Abel Gance (1889), and Louis Malle (1932). After him are Claude Lanzmann (1925), Jacques Rivette (1928), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Jacques Demy (1931), Bertrand Blier (1939), and Julien Duvivier (1896).