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Jean-Pierre Blanc

film director (1942–2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ3169023 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean-Pierre Blanc (23 April 1942 – 21 May 2004) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed six films between 1972 and 1993. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival for La Vieille Fille.

Editorial summary

“Jean-Pierre Blanc” enters the record as film director (1942–2004). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean-Pierre, Blanc and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 2004, 1972, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-04-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jean-Pierre, Blanc and film.
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Why this record matters

“Jean-Pierre Blanc” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jean-Pierre, Blanc and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3169023. VIAF identifies the subject as 17406843. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2004, 1972 and 1993.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean-Pierre Blanc” 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.