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Hervé Bromberger

French film director (1918–1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3134437 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hervé Bromberger (11 November 1918 – 25 November 1993) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1951 and 1982. His 1951 film Paris Vice Squad was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Paris Vice Squad (1951)

The Billionaire Tramp (1951)

Alone in Paris (1951)

Wild Fruit (1954)

Nagana (1955)

Three Fables of Love (1962)

Mort, où est ta victoire?

Editorial summary

“Hervé Bromberger” enters the record as french film director (1918–1993). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hervé, Bromberger and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1993, 1951, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-11-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hervé, Bromberger and French.
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Why this record matters

“Hervé Bromberger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hervé, Bromberger and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3134437. VIAF identifies the subject as 14964963. The Library of Congress control number is n2008069068. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1993, 1951 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hervé Bromberger” 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.