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The Seine Meets Paris

1957 film by Joris Ivens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19912842 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Seine Meets Paris (French: La Seine a rencontré Paris) is a 1957 French short documentary film directed by Joris Ivens from a screenplay by Jacques Prévert. Told from the perspective of a boat trip through the city, it features scenes of daily life along the river. The film won the short film Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Seine Meets Paris” is 1957 film by Joris Ivens. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Seine, Meets and Paris, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957. For this dossier, Seine, Meets and Paris is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1957 film by Joris Ivens” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19912842. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Seine Meets Paris” 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.