# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-gjika
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:24:25.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-gjika"
name: "Viktor Gjika"
slug: "viktor-gjika"
description: "Viktor Gjika was an Albanian director, filmmaker and screenwriter. For his distinguished and remarkable contribution to the cinema, he was awarded the highest title as People's Artist in 1985. He graduated from VKIG Cinematographic Institute of Moscow in Russia. Together with a classmate, presenting their academic degree when graduated, they shot the short film Nobody Ever Dies, based on Ernest Hemingway's story of the same name, which was awarded the First Prize at the Worldwide Cinematographic Institutes Film Festival in the Netherlands in 1961. He created more than 15 movies and over 25 documentary films."
tagline: "Albanian film director and screenwriter (1937-2009)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1937-06-23"
deathDate: "2009-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.05
  momentum:             2.543859649122806
  historical:           7.671814666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321538/"
    handle:    "nm0321538"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AC%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ڤيكتور جچيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gjika"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1467644"
    title: "Viktor Gjika"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump