Imitation of Life (1959 movie)

Imitation of Life - 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk. This film is the 4929^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “Imitation of Life (1959 movie)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Imitation of Life (1959 movie)”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 572 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Imitation of Life is on the 4929^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 856 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #812 in February 2012
• Global: #21408 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3847 in December 2020
• Global: #26040 in January 2022

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		53.5216
2	Catalan (ca) Imitació de la vida		49.7414
3	Portuguese (pt) Imitação da Vida (1959)		43.7814
4	Serbian (sr) Имитација живота (филм из 1959)		33.7286
5	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		31.4767
6	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		31.415
7	Russian (ru) Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)		30.9851
8	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		23.3162
9	Turkish (tr) Imitation of Life (film, 1959)		20.9448
10	Japanese (ja) 悲しみは空の彼方に		17.5789

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Imitation of Life (1959 movie)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		3 633 159
2	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		389 537
3	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		234 370
4	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		172 281
5	Japanese (ja) 悲しみは空の彼方に		159 036
6	Spanish (es) Imitación a la vida		139 534
7	Russian (ru) Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)		62 886
8	Persian (fa) تقلید زندگی (فیلم ۱۹۵۹)		20 703
9	Portuguese (pt) Imitação da Vida (1959)		19 125
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Imitacija života		12 346

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Imitation of Life (1959 movie)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		23 338
2	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		844
3	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		765
4	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		755
5	Spanish (es) Imitación a la vida		604
6	Japanese (ja) 悲しみは空の彼方に		358
7	Portuguese (pt) Imitação da Vida (1959)		232
8	Russian (ru) Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)		189
9	Serbian (sr) Имитација живота (филм из 1959)		82
10	Catalan (ca) Imitació de la vida		57

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Imitation of Life (1959 movie)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		198
2	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		66
3	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		63
4	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		53
5	Japanese (ja) 悲しみは空の彼方に		22
6	Russian (ru) Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)		20
7	Portuguese (pt) Imitação da Vida (1959)		18
8	Finnish (fi) Suurinta elämässä (vuoden 1959 elokuva)		14
9	Latin (la) Imitation of Life (pellicula 1959)		12
10	Dutch (nl) Imitation of Life (1959)		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Imitation of Life (1959 movie)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		4
2	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		1
3	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		1
4	Dutch (nl) Imitation of Life (1959)		1
5	Polish (pl) Zwierciadło życia		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Imitação da Vida (1959)		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Подобие на живот		0
8	Catalan (ca) Imitació de la vida		0
9	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		0
10	Spanish (es) Imitación a la vida		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Imitation of Life (1959 movie)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Imitation of Life (1959 film)		201
2	French (fr) Mirage de la vie		97
3	German (de) Solange es Menschen gibt		82
4	Dutch (nl) Imitation of Life (1959)		56
5	Italian (it) Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)		44
6	Russian (ru) Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)		43
7	Japanese (ja) 悲しみは空の彼方に		32
8	Spanish (es) Imitación a la vida		30
9	Catalan (ca) Imitació de la vida		29
10	Persian (fa) تقلید زندگی (فیلم ۱۹۵۹)		29

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Подобие на живот
ca	Catalan Imitació de la vida
de	German Solange es Menschen gibt
en	English Imitation of Life (1959 film)
es	Spanish Imitación a la vida
eu	Basque Imitation of Life (1959ko filma)
fa	Persian تقلید زندگی (فیلم ۱۹۵۹)
fi	Finnish Suurinta elämässä (vuoden 1959 elokuva)
fr	French Mirage de la vie
he	Hebrew חיקוי לחיים
id	Indonesian Imitation of Life (film 1959)
it	Italian Lo specchio della vita (film 1959)
ja	Japanese 悲しみは空の彼方に
ko	Korean 슬픔은 그대 가슴에 (1959년 영화)
la	Latin Imitation of Life (pellicula 1959)
ms	Malay Filem Imitation of Life (1959)
nl	Dutch Imitation of Life (1959)
no	Norwegian Opprør mot livet
pl	Polish Zwierciadło życia
pt	Portuguese Imitação da Vida (1959)
ru	Russian Имитация жизни (фильм, 1959)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Imitacija života
simple	Simple English Imitation of Life (1959 movie)
sr	Serbian Имитација живота (филм из 1959)
sv	Swedish Den stora lögnen (1959)
tr	Turkish Imitation of Life (film, 1959)
vi	Vietnamese Ảo ảnh cuộc đời

Best Rank

Simple English: #3847 12.2020

Global: #26040 01.2022

Best Rank

Simple English: #812 02.2012

Global: #21408 02.2012

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