# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alain-jessua
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:52.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alain-jessua"
name: "Alain Jessua"
slug: "alain-jessua"
description: "Alain Jessua was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of Casque d'or, with Max Ophüls for Madame de... and Lola Montès and with Marcel Carné on Wasteland. Léon la lune his first short film won the influential Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. He directed first feature film in 1963 La vie à l'envers that won Best First Film at Venice Film Festival, in 1964."
tagline: "French film director, screenwriter (1932–2017)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kai2tvgvFVjg0MpypvYWylLYUiU.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-01-16"
deathDate: "2017-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.56303333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422252/"
    handle:    "nm0422252"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump