FILM DIRECTOR

Wanda Jakubowska

1907 - 1998

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Wanda Jakubowska (10 November 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director. Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust. Her 1948 film The Last Stage was an early and influential depiction of concentration camps. It was filmed on location at Auschwitz, where Jakubowska had been interned. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wanda Jakubowska is the 906th most popular film director (down from 895th in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from Poland (down from 888th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 906 out of 2,041. Before her are Jamie Uys, Rosa von Praunheim, Marc Forster, Aleksander Ford, Piotr Szulkin, and Erika Lust. After her are Philippe Rousselot, Yoshishige Yoshida, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jean Becker, Mary Lambert, and Benjamin Christensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 248. Before her are Víctor Avendaño, Philip Arthur Fisher, Israel Regardie, Polina Osipenko, Hugo Strauß, and Yevgeniy Abalakov. After her are Petro Grigorenko, Bep van Klaveren, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Nikolai Gastello, Lydia Chukovskaya, and Sukhdev Thapar. Among people deceased in 1998, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 197. Before her are William Gaddis, Mikio Oda, Marion Donovan, Manuel Álvarez, Maurice Schumann, and Johannes Kotkas. After her are Théodore Sindikubwabo, Kvitka Cisyk, Norberto Méndez, Nicolas Bouvier, Nagarjun, and Gloria Fuertes.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 909 out of 1,694. Before her are Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879), Arno Holz (1863), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), Piotr Szulkin (1950), and Eva Kotchever (1891). After her are Jacob Talmon (1916), Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Karl Decker (1897), Anna Dymna (1951), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), and Ewa Demarczyk (1941).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Wanda Jakubowska ranks 22. Before her are Andrzej Munk (1921), Wojciech Has (1925), Max Fleischer (1883), Rudolph Maté (1898), Boris Kaufman (1906), and Piotr Szulkin (1950). After her are Janusz Kamiński (1959), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Juliusz Machulski (1955), Dariusz Wolski (1956), Kazimierz Kutz (1929), and Andrzej Sekuła (1954).

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