FILM DIRECTOR

Walter Ruttmann

1887 - 1941

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Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (Weekend) (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of sound collages and audio plays. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Ruttmann is the 492nd most popular film director (down from 411th in 2019), the 2,679th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,212th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Walter Ruttmann ranks 492 out of 2,041. Before him are Lindsay Anderson, Pierre Woodman, Andre DeToth, Gérard Oury, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Alain Corneau. After him are Alessandro Blasetti, André Cayatte, Umberto Lenzi, Sam Wood, Yves Allégret, and Mauro Bolognini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Walter Ruttmann ranks 108. Before him are Lil Dagover, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Samuil Marshak, Josef Frings, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, and Alvin Hansen. After him are Louise Arner Boyd, Norman L. Bowen, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, James Finlayson, Frigyes Karinthy, and Andrei Shkuro. Among people deceased in 1941, Walter Ruttmann ranks 84. Before him are Maximilien Luce, J. Stuart Blackton, Joachim Schepke, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, Alexandros Koryzis, and Viktor Dankl von Krasnik. After him are Károly Huszár, Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal, Wilhelm Kienzl, Simon Dubnow, Marcel Prévost, and Anandyn Amar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 2,680 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Fritz Busch (1890), Alexander Braun (1805), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), and Heinrich Boie (1794). After him are Claus Schilling (1871), Eric II, Duke of Pomerania (1418), Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp (1719), and Dietmar Hopp (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Walter Ruttmann ranks 22. Before him are Robert Siodmak (1900), Lotte Reiniger (1899), Veit Harlan (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), and Walter Frentz (1907). After him are Werner Schroeter (1945), Alexander Kluge (1932), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Uli Edel (1947), Henry Koster (1905), and Tom Tykwer (1965).

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