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Seventh Heaven (1993 film)

1993 film by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2326862 ↗
Source-derived summary

De Zevende Hemel (English: Seventh Heaven) is a 1993 Belgian-Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, based on a script by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld translated by Urbanus.

Cast

Production

The film was written and directed by French director Jean-Paul Lilienfeld with Urbanus and Renée Soutendijk in the lead roles. Filming took place in Texel and Brussels. Unlike Hector and Koko Flanel, Seventh Heaven was not specifically written with Urbanus in mind.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Seventh Heaven (1993 film)” as 1993 film by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Seventh, Heaven and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1993 film by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2326862. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seventh Heaven (1993 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.