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Victor Iliu

film director (1912–1968)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4118386 ↗
Source-derived summary

Victor Iliu (24 November 1912 – 4 September 1968) was a Romanian film director. He directed seven films between 1948 and 1964. His film The Mill of Good Luck was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Victor Iliu” is film director (1912–1968). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Victor, Iliu and film, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1912, 1968, 1948, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1912-11-24. For this dossier, Victor, Iliu and film is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “film director (1912–1968)” 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

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 Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4118386. VIAF identifies the subject as 120760417. The Library of Congress control number is no2014144168. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1968, 1948 and 1964.

Critical limits

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Victor Iliu” 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.