# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederic-rossif
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:43.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederic-rossif"
name: "Frédéric Rossif"
slug: "frederic-rossif"
description: "Frédéric Rossif was a Yugoslav-born French film and television director who specialized primarily in documentaries, frequently using archive footage. He covered subjects including contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, African wildlife, and 20th century history. Rossif's best known work was To Die in Madrid, a film about the Spanish Civil War for which he won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1963. One of his final works was From Nuremberg to Nuremberg, a three-hour television documentary about Nazi Germany. He frequently collaborated with notable composers Maurice Jarre and Vangelis."
tagline: "French film director (1922–1990)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lDhKDrqxaG2HgY8yidzgdsSf0td.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-02-16"
deathDate: "1990-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.91
  momentum:             0.5155482815057283
  historical:           15.11292666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744364/"
    handle:    "nm0744364"
sources:
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Rossif"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Rossif"
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A3"
    title: "פרדריק רוסיף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Rossif"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Rossif"
    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Frédéric Rossif"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump